1.   Profits continued to improve within the Premier Fabrics and Yarns businesses and J E Morgan Heavyweight and there was a significant profit recovery at Blackwood Brothers.

2.   Yes, we did have a strong profits recovery in the second half, greatly helped by oil services and U S educational publishing.

3.   KLEINWORT Benson, the London merchant bank, continued its profits recovery last year, aided by a big reduction in bad debts.

4.   Analysts blame the decline mostly on growing doubts about the pace of profit recovery this year.

5.   For Hyundai, a profit recovery could be stalled by its heavy debt and paltry profit margins.

6.   In addition to that, I think the profit recovery is going to be sluggish, and you need strong profits to become ambitious in terms of capital spending.

7.   That is because this will be a long-lasting profit recovery.

8.   That put a damper on the outlook for profit recovery.

9.   There was some positive Portuguese company news today, in the form of a report of a third-quarter profit recovery at Electricidade de Portugal SA.

10.   The company attributed the profit recovery to its cost-cutting measures and the introduction of new models despite a slump in the Japanese car industry.