11.   In disclosing second-quarter results and slashing both year-end revenue and profit projections in late September, De Sole acknowledged the grim outlook.

12.   Missing profit projections one year would hurt his compensation, whatever the long-term rationale for retaining staff.

13.   Rather than tightening controls, Conagra quickly replaces the president of any unit that fails to meet its profit projections.

14.   That is not to say pharmaceutical companies ignore profit projections.

15.   The drop in one-time gains left net profit projections off the mark.

16.   The Norwest-Wells deal turned out to be one of the few big bank mergers of its period to avoid internal turmoil and meet profit projections.

17.   The regional railroad based in Rosemont, Illinois, said first-quarter earnings would fall short, and it was reassessing full-year profit projections.

18.   When a company does not meet sales estimates, it frequently falls short of profit projections, as well.

19.   While the two companies spoke in glowing terms of the venture, under which they will share revenues and expenses, they declined to provide profit projections.

20.   According the managing director Yeaw Kok Sing, the company is on target to meet its turnover and pre-tax profit projections for the present financial year.