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Prudential Insurance Co. of America said its 1985 net income rose 58 percent, to $2.33 billion from $1.48 billion in 1984. Chairman Robert Beck attributed the strong gain in earnings to a 94 percent increase in sales, plus profitable results in nearly all of the 110-year-old company`s divisions. Net income of Prudential-Bache Securities Inc. was $43 million. It had a loss of $85 million in 1984.
