The profit is a "pro forma" number, which means throwing out the bad stuff.
John Kerry signed by a number of pro-Bush Vietnam veterans, including several GOP congressmen.
At the same time the golf business was opening up, and Gill was quick to lease space and open a number of pro shops in Jakarta.
Syrian rebels arrested a number of pro-regime journalists while they were covering military operations in al-Tal, a suburb of Damascus, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
And investors saw a growing number of companies using fake pro forma numbers to pump up their earnings releases.
Even with Obama's pro-immigration shift and the growing number of Latinos in competitive states, their actual turnout may flag from their record numbers in 2008.
TaylorMade has long been the number one driver on the pro tour and has constantly ratcheted up innovation, most memorably with the R Series, which introduced the adjustable face angle so that players could customize the clubs to suit their games in terms of hook and slice.
Faced with the federalist assumptions of many European politicians, pro-European Britons have responded in a number of ways.
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Typically, pro forma fanciers argue that the more pleasant number better reflects the ongoing business while the ugly number only rakes over the dead past.
Everyone agrees - pro-life, pro-choice - I hope, that the number one goal should be reduce abortions.
That number looks even odder considering that according to Pro Football Focus, no quarterback threw deep more often than Denver's Tebow.
Six years ago, the pro- and anti-whaling camps were roughly equal in number.
Vitter campaigned in Louisiana as a pro-family conservative, only to be outed when his telephone number was found among those called by an escort service.
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Despite all the proposals to make accounting more transparent, pro forma obfuscations are as bad as ever--and cover a shocking number of public companies, according to data compiled by Multex (nasdaq: MLTX - news - people ), a New York financial research company.
Design pro Brian Case estimates that going 3-D with the Wraith bike slashed the number of parts by half, to 70.
Giuliani acknowledged he was pro-choice but that the party should do whatever it could to reduce the number of abortions performed in the country.
To that end, it announced a number of partnerships with big consumer brands, including InterContinental Hotel Group, Bass Pro Shops and Shell Oil.
In the U.S., athletes are not allowed to go pro until they have been out of high school for three years ( except in basketball the number is one), so college sports is the only way for physically gifted kids to earn money from sports.
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