The company said earnings for 2006 would drop to $1.15 to $1.25 a share.

It said earnings for those two years could drop by $250 million.

In the process, he says, his earnings dropped from $150,000 a year to half that amount.

In the last six years, growers' earnings have dropped by an average of 50 percent.

But earnings from the company's steel division dropped by more than a third.

In the 1991 second quarter, earnings of the nation's 12,150 commercial banks dropped 12 percent below a year ago to $4.6 billion.

But the real weekly earnings of similar workers who had only completed high school dropped 7 percent.

But both sales and earnings dropped significantly from first- quarter levels.

The film's earnings dropped 66% during the second week after its release to theaters.

The company also announced that earnings dropped by 4.5 percent last year, to 1.702 billion marks, or $894 million.