11.   Remember, Inktomi bragged about its being profitable before the dot-com bubble burst, at least excluding special items.

12.   The core rate excludes volatile items like credit costs.

13.   The core rate excludes volatile items such as credit costs.

14.   The figure excluded one-time items, but took into account new fiscal measures in France.

15.   The profit forecast excludes one-time items related to work force reductions and a tax settlement.

16.   The results, which exclude one-time items, reflect a drop in prices for packaging materials and newsprint.

17.   The system also makes some automatic assumptions, like excluding gift-wrapped items.

18.   Those figures exclude special items.

19.   Though they exclude extraordinary items, they include write-offs that companies think are best ignored.

20.   When Smith looked at financial wealth and excluded tangible items such as houses and cars, he found adisturbing pattern.