1.   ATLANTA - Corporate accounting, disappointing profits and concern about terrorism forced stock market investors to retreat for the third straight session on Wednesday.

2.   Beyond the disappointing profit from the book itself, pirated printings and theater stagings rarely paid him anything at all.

3.   A disappointing profit report from Hino Motors Ltd. also drove shares of second-tier carmakers lower.

4.   After four years of disappointing profits, Dell retreated.

5.   Alcatel software supplied to Deutsche Telekom has not worked as promised, and has hurt its operations, contributing to its disappointing profits in Germany.

6.   But with recent disappointing profit reports by blue-chip companies like Gillette and Hewlett-Packard, these investors are now turning tail and selling.

7.   Disappointing profits battered companies in industries ranging from financial services to tobacco.

8.   Disappointing profits are dismissed with a wave of the hand and the promise of a better tomorrow.

9.   Disappointing profits are to blame for declines in some stocks.

10.   Disappointing profit announcements could cut in half shares of Shiva Corp., a maker of remote-access computer systems.