In the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year, the company say its greatest gain in revenue, when it increased 59.5% from the year-earlier quarter.

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Analysts are expecting Discovery to report earnings of 63 cents per share, up 6.8% from a year ago when it reported earnings of 59 cents per share.

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It wasn't anybody's idea of a dream job when John Nils Hanson, a 59-year-old nuclear engineer from MIT, was named chief executive of Milwaukee-based Harnischfeger, by far the world's largest mining-machine maker.

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