1.  Analysts expected todays plunge, because the FDA review was considered a crucial hurdle for the as-yet unprofitable company.

2.  At the same time, many unprofitable companies, notably banks, still must cut costs to become competitive.

3.  But highly valued unprofitable companies like Amazon.com stayed out.

4.  But notoriously unprofitable Internet companies are using money raised from investors to subsidize discount pricing.

5.  Fokker filed for bankruptcy in March after its main shareholders decided to stop supporting the unprofitable company.

6.  Finance Minister Alain Madelin said in an interview last week that the government would no longer necessarily recapitalize its unprofitable companies before selling them.

7.  He had been publicly criticized by Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou for failing to sell the unprofitable company.

8.  He essentially shut down Fokker Aircraft and sold off a dozen other unprofitable companies that had been acquired under the previous chairman , Edzard Reuter.

9.  In both industries, the EU is insisting that Russia open up its domestic market by doing away with government subsidies for unprofitable companies.

10.  Interest in the stock was little affected when a Laura Ashley spokesman denied speculation the unprofitable company might be sold.