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 Combustion Engineering Inc. said 
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third-quarter net income of $22.8 million, 
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reversing a $91.7 million year-earlier loss.
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 The Stamford, Conn., power-generation products and services company said 
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per-share earnings were 56 cents 
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compared with the year-ago loss of $2.39.
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 Sales fell 1.5% to $884 million from $897.2 million.
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 Strong profit in the process industries, 
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including chemical and pulp and paper,
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 were offset by higher interest expense and by lower earnings 
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as the company closed out certain long-term contracts. 
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 Combustion reported improved profits in its automation and control products businesses, 
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and it narrowed its losses in its public sector and environmental segment.
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 Power generation had higher sales but lower earnings; 
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the company cited factors 
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including work on certain low profit-margin contracts from previous years. 
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 Net in the latest quarter included a pretax gain of $22.4 million from the sale of Combustion's minority interest in Stein Industrie to GEC Alsthom N.V. of the Netherlands.
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 Last year's results reflected a gain of $28.2 million on disposition of assets and a $165 million pretax provision mainly from costs 
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of completing certain waste-to-energy and other power plants.
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