21.   Blue Cross officials defended their strategy and said they have been focusing on only profitable business and foregoing contracts that would not make money.

22.   Borden sold all of its snack lines, except Wise, to focus on its more profitable businesses.

23.   Both Preussag and Lufthansa have been trying to concentrate on their most profitable businesses to withstand international competition.

24.   A number of Japanese companies are selling less profitable business lines, as well as assets like buildings, resort clubs and land.

25.   Alpacas may seem like exotic pets, but, as a growing number of people are finding, breeding alpacas can be a profitable business.

26.   Brokerage houses and mutual funds are deeply engaged in the profitable business of investing the billions building up in retirement accounts.

27.   But few experts are willing to declare that the Web has taken its place in the mass media pantheon because the profitable business formulas have yet to be found.

28.   But he has done this in part by buying back millions of shares of stock and taking Wells Fargo out of less profitable businesses.

29.   But instead of quietly closing shop, the company is the center of a takeover battle for its few profitable businesses.

30.   But so-called narrowcast cable channels have been building highly profitable businesses by thinking small and keeping programming budgets tight.