| Allergan 4Q Profit Falls 2 Percent
Allergan Inc., the company best known for its Botox wrinkle treatment, said Wednesday that its fourth-quarter profit fell 2 percent on the continued integration of acquired cosmetic surgery products maker Inamed Corp. Net income declined to $136.8 million, or 89 cents per share, from $140.1 million, or $1.03 per share, in the year-ago period. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.02 for the latest quarter. Revenue rose 39 percent to $829.1 million from $598.8 million. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial expected earnings per share of $1.02 on revenue of $816.5 million. For the full year, the company posted a loss of $127.4 million, or 87 cents per share, versus a profit of $403.9 million, or $3.01 per share, last year. Allergan reported adjusted earnings of $3.66 per share in 2006, excluding the cost of acquiring Inamed.
It's not too late to use the last of 2006 flex account
For some people, a flexible spending account is a tax-free, no-interest loan to pay for laser eye surgery or in vitro fertilization. For others, it's money forgotten about until the end of the year, when they scramble for ways to spend thousands of dollars before losing the cash for good. Anything they don't spend by a certain date will be kept by their employers. .
Woman accused of poisoning spouse was in wet t-shirt contest after ...
SAN DIEGO - Two ex-co-workers of a woman accused of poisoning her Marine husband testified Wednesday that she participated in wet T-shirt and thong contests a few months after he died, and three military men testified they had sex with her in the weeks after she became a widow.Cynthia Sommer, 33, is charged with murder and special circumstances of murder by poison and murder for financial gain in the Feb. 18, 2002, death of Sgt. Todd Sommer. Closing arguments are scheduled tomorrow. .
2002 set high standards
The crap-shoot that is collegiate football recruiting had to be even tougher for UL's football program five seasons ago. The Cajuns were in turmoil as a team, with Jerry Baldwin fired following the 2001 season and the squad winning only six games out of 33 starts the previous three years. New head coach Rickey Bustle kept only three holdovers from the previous year's coaching staff, and none of the new coaches had backgrounds anywhere close to UL, Louisiana or the Gulf South. .
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