11.   Auriana says the fund does not play the slippery new-issues market for quick profits.

12.   Banks had used currency speculation for quick profits to make up for undependable cash flow from loans to unstable businesses, which often failed to make loan repayments.

13.   Bank South Corp. has lost its shine as a good bet for quick profits in a takeover.

14.   But even the most promising purchases are unlikely to turn a quick profit.

15.   But he also opposed the bulldozing of a poor neighborhood so real estate developers could turn a quick profit.

16.   But even analysts are asking what that critical mass has become now that the quick IPO profits are gone.

17.   But telecommunications investors looking for quick profit may not want to apply that maxim just now.

18.   But traders immediately turned around and sold, locking in a quick profit.

19.   But unlike other mergers in the insurance and banking fields, this one is not expected to yield quick profits through cost-cutting and consolidation.

20.   But, Alvarez said, unlike other recent owners, he is entertaining no such thoughts of turning a quick profit on Shiner.