Core operating profits fell 8% to $1.8bn.
Core operating margins last year were 14.5%.
"Our core operating units are fundamentally on solid ground," Ms. McNamara said.
According to Maude, the government is moving away from a "simple accountability model", towards embedding openness and transparency as core operating principles of public services.
Respect for the sovereignty of other nations, even the less savory ones, is a core operating principle of the world organization.
Southern Cross will retain a core operating function until the end of the month to resolve care delivery in the remaining homes.
Stu Loeser, a spokesman for Mr. Bloomberg, said that the police-escort episode struck at a core "operating principle" of City Hall, that citizens deserved equal treatment.
Taking current share prices and what companies claim as their core operating profits in 2001 gives a p/e of 26.
Haskin lost its $150,000 core operating budget on July 1 when it was included as a line item in an appropriations request by Rutgers for $1.1 million for aquaculture development, which was not included in the final approved budget.
Pre-tax profits fell 6% year on year to €7.2bn (£5.5bn), although Unilever said core operating profits, which strip out the profits from the sale of Ragu pasta sauce in 2014, rose 12% in 2015 compared with the previous year.
Instead, each of the nation's three granting councils received 6.3% hikes in their core operating budgets.
