The results, which included a deduction of 6 cents a share for employee stock-option expenses and a $147 million revamping charge, met analysts' expectations, according to Thomson First Call.
The results, which included a deduction of a penny a share because of foreign currency adjustments, met Wall Street's expectations.
Those results, which included a deduction of 2 cents a share because of foreign currency adjustments, were in line with Wall Street's expectations.
The results for the fourth quarter of 2002 include a deduction of 2 cents a share because of accounting charges related to the company's decision in July to expense stock options.
Meanwhile, House and Senate Republicans continued to haggle over how to extend a long list of other expiring tax breaks, including a deduction for college tuition payments and a savings credit for low-income families, that were left out of the bill that Mr. Bush signed in the White House Rose Garden.
Other senators said they believed that voters generally prefer more narrowly tailored tax cuts, like the ones the Republicans championed in the last state legislative session, including a deduction for the cost of college tuition and a reduction in the state's utility tax.
"The Football League re-affirm its earlier decision that these conditions would include a deduction of 10 points," said the statement.
The Bush plan includes a tax deduction for long-term care insurance premiums, at a cost of $5.1 billion over five years, and a new tax exemption, valued at $2,750, for each elderly spouse, parent or relative that a caregiver tends to in the home.
The new tax law — which slices corporate tax rates from 35percenttoto 21percentt, slashes estate taxes and includes a special deduction for oil and gas investors — is expected to save the Koch brothers and their businesses billions of dollars in taxes. .
