In all the studies, if you control for earnings, age and experience, women are the same as men.

He also said that the increase in the rate of growth for earnings had gone up about what would be expected.

A bit later he said, "We want to make a half a million a year and then sell for 12 to 14 times earnings."

Most of the workers later moved to towns for good earnings.

He raised his estimate for 1997 earnings to $2.55 a share from $2.20.

He said financial services companies had typically sold for 15 times earnings.

"I think it means you can write off this year for earnings," he said.

A stands for Annual earnings, which should be up 25% or more in each of the last three years.

Its stock trades for about $26, or 11 times earnings.

And it stood by its earlier estimate for 2003 earnings of $1.60 to $1.65 a share.