Those gains have helped to overcome some weak results elsewhere.

Still she emphasized that the economic gains of freer trade should help ease the drug problem.

Though the latest operating profits were down $249 million from the 1987 level, gains overseas helped to produce record net income of $5.3 billion.

Such gains foster the growth of developing countries and help them pay off their debt to the West.

Those gains have helped fuel a spree of consumer spending and borrowing in the last year or so.

The gains in oil services stocks helped push the market up broadly.

A one-time gain from the sale of assets, mostly aircraft, also helped results, it said.

But its gain helps the estate only a little.

But strong gains for stock and bonds helped turn the attention of currency traders away from the battle in Washington over the budget.

Apart from, turnover also increased in consumer products, helped particularly by the strong performance of and gains at.