We are looking for sort of a weak profit level in 1996.

Set your team a competition to increase profit levels by 10 per cent this week.

It would be nice to know the profit levels that the contractors have received.

Without changes, many in the industry say, newspapers will never return to the profit levels of the mid-1980's.

"They'll look for something that involves considerably less risk, but still has a high profit level."

"Thus, what we saw was the gross profit level fell from prior years."

We're not going to be committing to a large profit level now.

That profit level was down from the 1996 fourth quarter, when the company earned $1.16 billion, or $1.06 a share.

The company said that it needed to maintain an acceptable profit level on those calls.

"The last three or four years in the turkey business have been above normal profit levels, so everyone increased production."