Moreover, the solar panel company could claim compensation not only for the deposit, but also for their total loss of profits on the deal.
The seven discount retailers in the accompanying table earned a total of $8.4 billion in profits in fiscal 1999; total profits are expected to hit nearly $10 billion in fiscal 2001.
But the threat of total profits and lack of clarity extend beyond the threat of potential trolls.
The executives earned a total of $936 million in profits from the sales, according to the suit by Milberg Weiss.
He earned a total of $290,000 in profits on the illegal trades, the government said, which he now must forfeit.
Close analysis of Barclays' annual report also shows that Canadian chief executive Matt Barrett earned a total of £2.8m, including profits on share options.
Next year Isaly expects 20 biotech outfits to generate a total of $2.6 billion in profits; they're growing at 30% a year.
She forecast that in 2012, the cholesterol drugs would represent about $3 billion in profits, or about 17percentt of Merck's projected total pretax profits of $17.4 billion.
The company was not alone in recording the impact of a lower oil price regime, with Eni of Italy and Total of France reporting profit falls.
The final performance for the third and fourth quarters will depend a lot on how well banks and other financial companies do because they account for about 23percentt of the total profit of the companies in the S.& P. 500.
