Not sure your statement is totally accurate. This Q earnings does not include a one time gain the way I read it:
"Net income for the first nine months of 1997, which included a pre-tax gain of $20,803,000 ($13,855,000 or 7 cents per share, after tax) on the sale of stock held as an investment, was $186,155,000, up 217.9 percent from $58,566,000 a year earlier. (The previous year included a write-off of in-process R&D, amounting to $54,100,000, net of tax, taken in connection with an acquisition.)" |
