51.   Eventually Karpov smoothed the company into a profitable business, with tips from an American consultant.

52.   Fairlawn, Ohio-based GenCorp said in January that it wanted to sell the unit to concentrate on fewer and more profitable businesses.

53.   Even with the rising loan losses, credit-card issuance has become an increasingly profitable business.

54.   Exactly how profitable additional business operations will be is unclear.

55.   For companies that engaged in the practice, it was not necessarily a profitable business.

56.   For BellSouth, the sale will allow the company to focus on potentially more profitable businesses.

57.   For Hancock the deal was a chance to unload a marginally profitable business and to concentrate on the insurance and retirement markets that hold more promise.

58.   For Nero, the Gilson represents a way to run a profitable business while revitalizing a town institution.

59.   For the past year, MCI has changed its focus away from providing less profitable consumer phone services to boosting sales of more profitable business and data services.

60.   Foreign exchange salespeople do their best to attract and keep big traders, including entertaining them, because that brings in profitable business to their banks.