"We wouldn't be anticipating spectacular profits in the near term," said Patrick Collins, Pactel's assistant vice president for business strategy.

This week, after eight years of speCtacular ratings and spectacular profits, Bill Cosby will finish up what he had to say on "The Cosby Show."

The cautious old-timers say they are seeking stability rather than spectacular profits.

He has wrung spectacular profits from products - cat food, canned tuna, private-label soups, and, of course, ketchup - that are mundane by any standards, and mature by many.

Spreads between stock and futures prices have not been large enough in the last 18 months to provide the spectacular profits of program trading's early days.

Such a strategy will not provide the spectacular, speedy profits often generated during the initial talk about a big deal.

The pressure to find an answer is, however unfairly, especially high in her case: a rustic original must be alert to any suspicion that she is recycling the spectacle of poverty for spectacular profit.

H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Company never shared in the spectacular profits of the early automobile industry.

But being on the team of a blockbuster deal does not always add up to spectacular profits.

Analysts said that merchant banking had made spectacular profits for some Wall Street firms, but they cautioned that such earnings tended to be viewed as irregular.