The depreciation and amortization items added to earnings are both non-cash accounting entries. Depreciation is used to write down the cost of capital items purchased by a business and amortization is for intangible items.
Long experience of someone or something can make one so aware of the faults as to be scornful. For example, Ten years at the same job and now he hates it-familiarity breeds contempt. The idea is much older, but the first recorded use of this expression was in Chaucer's Tale of Melibee (c. 1386).
contempt. n. 1. the attitude or feeling of a person towards a person or thing that he considers worthless or despicable; scorn. 2. the state of being scorned; disgrace (esp in the phrase hold in contempt). 3. (Law) wilful disregard of or disrespect for the authority of a court of law or legislative body: contempt of court.