11.  Shares in Chilean utilities had rallied on a perception that they would be well suited to reorganizing the unprofitable Brazilian company and producing attractive profits in a few years.

12.  That financing dried up last year, pushing several unprofitable companies into bankruptcy and others to the brink of insolvency.

13.  The country also is battling a banking crisis and is struggling with dozens of unprofitable state companies that the World Bank says should be closed.

14.  The government has vowed to abolish regulations that have long stifled competition in the securities industry and kept unprofitable companies such as Sanyo in business.

15.  The move reopens the bidding after a plan to sell the unprofitable company in one piece to Lagardere SA was rejected by a government panel.

16.  The ruling was based on an expired law that had allowed minority shareholders to seek the breakup of unprofitable companies.

17.  Wall Street punishes unprofitable companies.

18.  Would he join in Internet mania, paying sky-high prices for shares in as yet unprofitable companies?

19.  China prefers to merge unprofitable state companies with profitable counterparts, rather than to sell them off, Ding said.

20.  Most of them will be privatized, and unprofitable companies are to be closed.