It includes so many one-time sales that those are not numbers you can project into the future.

One-time sale: A one-time sales or issuing all of the company's shares in the stock exchange.

Under a 1985 law to prohibit gimmickry in budget-making, one-time sales of Government assets cannot offset spending.

Wood says that he was told that his purchases were "one-time sales," and therefore ineligible for a refund.

For example, he said, regional-brand food companies are generally valued at one-time annual sales, while energy companies are valued on a measurement of their proved and probable reserves.

Most of the changes came from one-time sales, refinancing debt, re-estimating revenues, slowing hiring, reducing supplies, delaying new programs and streamlining operations.

As in auctions, it would be the United States Treasury, but with the revenue flow smoothed, rather than dependent on one-time sales.

The figure last year, however, included about $50 million associated with what were essentially one-time sales of satellite capacity, so the company's operating revenue was essentially flat.

Nor was he convinced that one-time sales of Federal assets like oil should be used to pay for continuing expenses like education programs.

He would not have continued to propose budgets based on one-time sales and phantom sales-tax revenue.