This gain does not include the benefits of averting the damage caused by climate change.

The gain included a $13.4 billion rise in wages and salaries, which followed an even larger $19.3 billion rise in this key category in August.

This gain included a $2 billion increase in payrolls at manufacturing companies, which followed a $1.1 billion December rise.

Portuguese gains included Kionga, a port city in modern-day Tanzania.

This gain included extraordinary credits of $3,470,000, or 70 cents a share.

With the recent improvement and gains in government employment included, some 1.8 million jobs have been lost over all since President Bush took office.

The gain included the reduction of a legal reserve amounting to $55 million before taxes.

Last month's gain in income included a large increase in farm subsidy payments.

Latest quarter's continuing operations of $18,347,000, or $2.76 a share included $14,250,000, or $2.19 a share, net gain on sale of subsidiary stock.

Those gains could include tariff-free access for all goods from the poorest countries, the abolition of tariff peaks and agreements to stop export dumping.