31.   New York Times said it benefited from operating profit gains in its newspaper and broadcast businesses and higher earnings from paper mills in which it has stakes.

32.   Newspapers, meantime, will report profit gains because of stronger advertising and lower costs for newsprint.

33.   Newspaper publishers, meantime, will report strong profit gains because of rising advertising sales and stable newsprint prices.

34.   Oil, gas and electricity companies have been posting huge profit gains recently.

35.   Only retailers with little debt and tight cost controls will be able to eke out profit gains for the fiscal fourth quarter, analysts said.

36.   Only retailers with little debt and tight cost controls will eke out profit gains for the fiscal fourth quarter, analysts said.

37.   Other possible buyers are electric utilities that want to expand because they expect only limited profit gains from their current businesses, the person familiar with Tenneco said.

38.   Price pressure remains strong in the tire industry, and further profit gains will depend in part on whether that slackens, he added.

39.   Profit gains at Travelers, the first major insurer to report second-quarter earnings, are expected to be matched by results of other insurers, Zuckerman said.

40.   Sanyo Securities attributed much of its profit gain to robust sales of high-yield bonds issued in Australia and other foreign countries.