Early results, he says, indicate a strong fourth quarter for those products.

But the Giants' strong third quarter put the game out of reach for a 2-0 lead in the series.

The stock market just completed one of its strongest quarters since 1980.

"We're actually expecting a pretty strong quarter right now," he said.

It said that revenue in its computer systems and services group was down from a strong quarter a year ago.

It would thus take at least one more strong quarter to push him over the top.

"Give us one strong quarter and all this will go away."

After the strong quarter just completed, he said in a telephone interview, "now we have to go out and do it again."

It was the strongest quarter in the company's 116-year history.

And so, despite a strong first quarter for the magazine, the company lost $2.4 million.