1.   Alza, by contrast, has been generally profitable with products focused on oncology and urology.

2.   By selling Transamerica Financial, the company aims to become more profitable with a centralized lending operation and a focus on home-equity loans.

3.   Doubts remain over how quickly the new channels can become profitable with such high start up costs.

4.   Investors bet such exporters would still be profitable even with recent gains by the yen.

5.   Moreover, the software business could become even more profitable with the next generation of machines.

6.   To be profitable with their Medicare plans, HMOs may have little choice but to establish capitation policies wherever they can.

7.   Video releases also are expected to become more profitable with the advent of the digital video disk, a sort of compact disk for films.

8.   But hospital executives say such centers can be profitable with a relatively small number of patients.

9.   The report said such illegal mines were common in Yunnan because the shallow depth of coal seams make extraction profitable with even primitive equipment.

10.   Others could be made profitable with the upgrading of equipment.