Lenovo posted a 78 percent plunge in net profit to $23.44 million for the quarter ended in September, its worst performance since its acquisition of IBM's PC business in 2005.

联想集团公布了九月份结束的季度财报，其净利润下降了78%，已经降到2344万美元，这是联想自2005年收购IBM个人电脑业务以来最差的业绩。

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Construction companies are prohibited to get involved in moving people out of their homes.The party undertaking house acquisition and compensation work should not be profit organizations.

禁止建设单位参与搬迁，承担房屋征收与补偿具体工作的单位不得以营利为目的。

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Full - year adjusted operating profit, excluding acquisition costs and other one-time items, rose to about 140 million pounds. That beat the average analyst estimate of 128 million pounds.

不包括并购成本和其他一次性项目在内，思百吉公司全年经营利润增长到1.4亿英镑左右，超过分析师平均预测的1.28亿英镑。

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Excluding acquisition costs, General Mills reported net profit of 76 cents per share.

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Generally, inside traders profit by buying stocks of acquisition targets before deals are announced and selling after the targets' shares rise in value.

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Rival and fellow Dow component Merck, which reported a steep profit decline of its own on acquisition-related charges last week, gained 1.2% Tuesday.

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