101.   Such unplanned promotions can erode profits.

102.   Steady interest rates could help Japanese stocks by diminishing concern rising borrowing costs will erode profits.

103.   Still, an unexpectedly strong government report on housing starts helped send stocks lower, as it renewed concern that corporate profits may be eroded by rising interest rates.

104.   Telecommunications-equipment makers Northern Telecom Ltd. and Newbridge Networks Corp. may extend losses on concern slowing Asian economies will erode corporate profits.

105.   Stock people may have found in his remarks reassurance that the economy was likely to keep growing and avoid a credit crunch and business downturn that would erode profits.

106.   Stocks in Asia have plunged in recent weeks as defaults and bankruptcies eroded profit for companies in the region.

107.   That could erode profits at airlines, curtailing their appetite for new aircraft.

108.   Thai stocks were mixed, ending a two-day rally, on concern rising costs will erode profits at banks.

109.   That increase in interest rates will boost borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, and could eventually erode profits.

110.   That increase will raise borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, and could eventually erode profits.