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Excluding charges, earnings reached $1.54 billion, or $2.39 a share.
Excluding revamping charges, earnings were 91 cents a share.
Including these charges, earnings were 17 cents a share.
Excluding one-time charges, earnings were $3.5 billion, or $1.25 a share.
Excluding acquisition- and severance-related charges, earnings were 40 cents a share.
Excluding items like restructuring and integration charges, earnings were $1.31 a share.
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Excluding a charge, earnings were 68 cents a share in the quarter.
Without the charge, earnings were 39 cents a share, a 26percentt increase from the period last year.
Excluding the charge, earnings would have been 17 cents a share, 2 cents higher than analysts' estimates of 15 cents a share, according to Thomson First Call.
And even the 5percentt gain in this year's second quarter came with an asterisk: including a $41 million charge, earnings plunged 18percentt.
2. Charge earnings for the unrealized gains on exercisable options and adjust charges quarterly, but report this charge as a separate income statement item called "non-operating EPS".
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