Offer incentives to staff for coming up with ideas that increase your bottom line.

Partners Against Pain didn't promote OxyContin specifically; the company's marketers knew that simply expanding the total market would also increase their bottom line.

DeWalt increased their line of tools using ELU's technology.

Its bankers, who last year increased its line of credit, have been cooperative.

The slush fund was then tapped at the end of financial reporting period's to increase Bankers Trust's bottom line.

This allows companies to streamline production, boost competency, and increase their bottom line.

These include increasing its line of credit to $400 million from $190 million to support film and television output, and assuming $800 million of M-G-M debt.

Ms. Steinman said she hopes to increase her company's own line of designer T-shirts, which are sold in small stores, from 20 percent to 50 percent of revenue.

Most are finding that the studio's assumption that big stars will increase a movie's bottom line is simply wrong.

A posting on nytimes.com offered a similar lament: "They've cut to the bone to increase their bottom line.