21.   Instead, their profits come from investing the premiums their customers pay from the time they are collected until they are paid out in claims.

22.   Its operating profit comes in below expectations.

23.   Lexmark International, a maker of computer printers, said that its third-quarter profit would come in below expectations.

24.   More than half of Williams sales and operating profit comes from its building materials division.

25.   Money Store profits come from interest payments customers make on home equity, small business, students and auto loans.

26.   On an operating basis, profit came in weaker than expected.

27.   On the Internet, analysts are still struggling to explain where the profits will come from.

28.   On Wall Street the banking profits come from whizz-kids dreaming up financial instruments too complex for their elders to grasp.

29.   One result was that corporate profits came to take an ever bigger slice of the revenue pie while workers got much less.

30.   Over the six months, gross profit came under pressure as a result of three specific factors.