21.   While this can exclude obvious items, such as letters of recommendation, employees can look at documentation related to promotions, raises, discipline, and the like.

22.   Operating profit excludes financial items such as interest and taxes and the costs of dropping workers and closing plants.

23.   Operating profit figures also exclude items such as interest and taxes.

24.   But its earnings excluding special items matched reduced expectations on Wall Street.

25.   But the quarterly results narrowly beat Wall Street expectations if one-time items are excluded from the comparison.

26.   It failed because each of its six member nations was allowed to exclude any item deemed vital to its economy.

27.   Its results excluding one-time items beat Wall Street expectations.

28.   Operating profits exclude financial items such as interest, taxes and depreciation as well as nonrecurring expenses.

29.   That figure excludes financial items like interest and taxes, and ignores one-time gains and losses.

30.   The company Wednesday said earnings excluding items, which the company calls operating income, was about break-even for the quarter.