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Search for: Offline summarization (match summaries) Hybrid summarization Online summarization Offline summarization (match articles) U.S. World Finance Sci/Tech Entertainment Sports View Today's Images Back to Archive Index About Newsblaster About today's run Newsblaster in Press Academic Papers Article Sources: news.bbc.co.uk (110 articles) washingtonpost.com (80 articles) abcnews.go.com (78 articles) msnbc.msn.com (61 articles) nytimes.com (58 articles) dallasnews.com (58 articles) seattletimes. nwsource.com (46 articles) cbc.ca (32 articles) latimes.com (29 articles) cbsnews.com (25 articles) sfgate.com (24 articles) cnn.com (22 articles) usatoday.com (20 articles) nypost.com (19 articles) money.cnn.com (7 articles) suntimes.com (6 articles) observer. guardian.co.uk (3 articles) sportsillustrated. cnn.com (2 articles) baltimoresun.com (2 articles) reuters.com (2 articles) politics. guardian.co.uk (1 article)	Bank of America first-quarter earnings rise Summary from United States, from articles in English Eli Lilly & Company on Monday said its profit climbed in the first quarter despite eroding sales of its antipsychosis drug Zyprexa and its attention deficit disorder treatment Strattera, which has a new warning about side effects. (article 7) Bank of America Corp.'s first-quarter earnings rose sharply from a year ago as the nation's No. 3 bank benefited from its acquisition of FleetBoston as well as strong commercial loan growth and deposit growth. (article 2) An acquisition also boosted results at Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks Inc., which said Monday its first-quarter earnings rose 36 percent because of its acquisition of National Commerce Financial Corp., strong interest income growth and improved credit quality. (article 2) ST. PAUL, Minn. - 3M Co., the maker of Post-It notes and Scotch tape, said Monday that first-quarter earnings rose 12 percent from a year ago due to sales growth, pricing and improved operational efficiencies. (article 4) Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial were looking for the company to post earnings of $1.01 per share on sales of $5.26 billion in the latest quarter. (article 4) The company said Monday that it earned $411 million, or 24 cents a share, compared with $367 million, or 21 cents a share, a year earlier. (article 6) Other stories about earnings, percent and cents: Stocks End Mixed Despite Strong Earnings (12 articles) Event tracking: Track this story's development in time Story keywords earnings, percent, cents, quarter, share Source articles Bank of America first-quarter earnings rise (money.cnn.com, 04/18/2005, 472 words) Bank of America Profit Up on Acquisition (CBS News, 04/18/2005, 509 words) Bank of America profit beats target (msnbc.msn.com, 04/18/2005, 367 words) 3M profit rises amid higher sales (msnbc.msn.com, 04/18/2005, 217 words) Product orders pick up for TI (dallasnews.com, 04/18/2005, 494 words) Texas Instruments profit rises, revenue flat (USA Today, 04/18/2005, 217 words) Profit Rises, but Eli Lilly Offers a Warning (nytimes.com, 04/19/2005, 247 words) Lilly Misses Estimates Despite Earnings (washingtonpost.com) (Washington Post, 04/18/2005, 622 words) blaster@cs.columbia.edu