1.   He was a major beneficiary of the video boom and used his profits to diversify and expand abroad.

2.   Although Rasiej has used profits from these ventures to help Irving Plaza, he said this year the club might finally make money on its own.

3.   And the Japanese economy continued to sag, restraining car makers from using profits at home to subsidize their operations here.

4.   And some ranchers prefer to sell their land to developers and use the profits as their retirement nest egg.

5.   At the same time, companies are using corporate profits instead of borrowing to pay for capital investment plans.

6.   Banks use profits earned from record-low rates to help write off trillions of yen in bad loans.

7.   Banks, which use latent profits on equity holdings to meet international capital-adequacy requirements are particularly vulnerable to poor closing at the end of the fiscal year.

8.   A number of banks are using these profits to write off bad debts.

9.   A third company was in the fishing business, but allegedly used the profits to pay for the bombing of the US embassy in Kenya.

10.   According to the indictment, Bissell used profits from a fraud scheme to make payments on Mercedes and Acura automobiles, as well as credit card bills.