Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had expected a break-even quarter.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial/First Call had expected a break-even quarter before one-time charges.
As recently as May 23, the company had said it expected a break-even result for the first half of 2001, compared with the year-earlier period, when profit rose 36 times to 144 million euros.
But there is little reason to expect a break with policies set by Ms Merkel and the outgoing (Social Democratic) foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Frank-Walter Steinmeier
She did not expect a break in programming as the theater moved out of its space and into the renovated warehouse.
He contended that Mr. Bush had proposed an unworkable and perhaps ruinous economic plan because he was unseasoned and beholden to the special interests who have financed his campaign and expect a break on their taxes.
So with new leaders in the White House and in Congress, one might expect a break with the past.
Romine was expecting a breaking ball; instead, Hughes threw a fastball.
When, at seventeen, he gave up his faith in favor of the seductions of the London literary world, he fully expected a complete break with his father, but no punishment ever came.
It just wasn't the sort of place they expected a long fault to break all at once.
Mark Fidrych chatted with the ball as if he expected a conversation to break out.
