1.   Corporation tax is the tax paid by all companies in the UK if they have sufficient taxable earnings.

2.   If a firm has earnings from overseas, it will generally have to pay overseas taxation on them.

3.   And companies do not necessarily have to have earnings to be stock-market stars.

4.   And since they generally invested the money badly, they did not have earnings from exports to meet their loan payments.

5.   As long as you have earnings from a job or alimony, you can open an IRA.

6.   Ascend Communications Inc. is expected to have higher earnings, although analysts reduced their estimates.

7.   At least Snapple had earnings then.

8.   Bank shares have been sold amid concern bad loans have crimped earnings and will kill the recovery.

9.   Because of the potential for dilution, that can make it difficult to use SBC stock to acquire high-flying Internet companies that may not have earnings.

10.   BMC Software Inc. is expected to have higher earnings, driven by strong sales of its Patrol software for open systems.