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26, 2005 One-time charges give Lilly quarterly loss of $2.4 million CHARLES WILSON Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS - Eli Lilly and Co.

reported a fourth-quarter loss of $2.4 million and broke even on per-share earnings despite a 5 percent increase in sales over the year-ago period, primarily due to one-time restructuring costs and taxes on overseas earnings.

Excluding about $990 million in those and other one-time charges, the Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical giant reported net income of $814.3 million, or 75 cents a share, for the three months ending Dec.

31, beating analysts' predictions by one cent.

Sales of the anti-psychotic Zyprexa, the company's best seller, were $1.085 billion for the quarter, down 5 percent compare...

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