71.   A major factor behind the drop in quarterly profits was the new film industry accounting standard that requires advertising and marketing costs to be figured in quickly.

72.   At the same time last year, Inktomi celebrated its first quarterly profit as dot-com start-ups and well-established companies alike clamored for its online networking and search engine products.

73.   Brokers said investors continued to take profits ahead of the impending slew of quarterly corporate profit reports in the United States.

74.   But for most of Tuesday, investors repeated what has become a pattern this September -- unloading the stocks of companies that even hint at disappointing quarterly profits.

75.   But there are questions in the retail sector, where Gap Inc. and JC Penney both have warned about quarterly profits.

76.   Disneyland Paris, formerly called Euro Disney, announced its first quarterly profit last month, three years after opening.

77.   First, is that high-tech bellwether Cisco Systems is due to report its quarterly profits after the closing bell today.

78.   In the way of actual reports, G-M has topped estimates with its quarterly profits, as has Advanced Micro Devices.

79.   Investors repeated Tuesday what has become a pattern in September -- unloading the stocks of companies that even hint at disappointing quarterly profits.

80.   Investors Tuesday repeated what has become a pattern in the market -- unloading the stocks of companies that even hint at disappointing quarterly profits.