"Without any change in the number of items sold, the profits earned overseas are worth more in dollars," said Joseph R. Oldfield, a vice president of the Polaroid Corporation.

The profit earned was used to renovate the dilapidated West Wycombe Park.

They demand that profits earned by companies dealing with Germany during the occupation and judged to be excessive, be paid back to the state.

Almost all the profits earned in the good years have vanished, and sector-fund investors as a group have little to show for all their fervid trading.

Those profits earned Mellon's employees a paid day off this year in a thank-you gesture by Mr. Cahouet.

A more important measure -the profits earned only from actual production - was up seven-tenths of 1 percent.

Viagra's contribution will simply be the total amount that people spend on the pills, or, equivalently, the profits earned and wages paid in the drug's manufacture and distribution.

Those same traders will much to often what the profits earned with their blood, sweat and tears shrink considerable as they prepare their tax returns.

In the 1970's, the technocrats in Jakarta made the rupiah convertible, allowing foreigners to repatriate profits earned in Indonesia and thus encouraging investment.

One is that the dollar is making exporters noncompetitive in international markets and hurting the bottom lines of multinational corporations when profits earned abroad are translated into dollars.