In the 1989 third quarter, Hilton earned $30.5 million, or 63 cents a share, from operations.

The retailer earns a significant amount from overseas operations.

Without the charge, the auto maker earned $92 million from operations last year.

The industry earned $2.8 billion from operations, before taxes and nonrecurring items.

In the 1986 fiscal year, Gulf and Western earned $3.66 a share from continuing operations.

In the first quarter of 1989, the company earned $31.5 million, or 40 cents a share, from continuing operations.

The payment could be significant for Unocal, which earned $456 million from operations last year.

First Republicbank said it would have earned about $12 million from operations in the quarter if not for the addition to the loss reserve.

Overseas, it earned $294 million from such operations in the quarter.

But last year, Qantas earned almost 80 percent of its profit from international operations.