Until recently, Colorado's Crested Butte Mountain Resort allowed uphill skiing only during nonoperating hours for its chairlifts.

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Mitsubishi Chemical, Japan's largest chemical maker, has earned an operating profit greater than nonoperating expenses and one-time writeoffs only four times in the last quarter-century, figures Toby Williams, head of Asian chemical research at SBC Warburg in Hong Kong.

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