With all the new bells and whistles--and generous subsidies from phone companies hoping to sign up new customers and upgrade old ones--sales of mobile phones are starting to pick up after two years of stagnation and could jump 15% next year.

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It all came to a head in 2010, when the FSA announced new rules on future PPI sales and demanded that lenders go back through old rejected complaints, and also old sales where there had been no complaint at all, to see if past sales met new standards.

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These companies are nimble cost-cutters, but making sales grow will be increasingly difficult as old medicines face increased competition and new drugs are few and far between.

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There are several possible contributors to the growth in furniture and home furnishings sales including new constructions that were delayed, frustrations with old furniture that should have been replaced earlier, etc.

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The report details how sales-pressured loan originators cut and pasted information from old files onto new files to complete loan documentations and how securitizations were stuffed with badly underwritten mortgages and sold to unwitting investors.

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Just how difficult this will be can be seen from the fact that when asked about the coming sales, both houses ignore the Old-Master sales that will be held in New York at the end of January and focus instead on the Impressionist and modern sales the following month.

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The American aircraft on offer will soon be replaced by classier and pricier models, so big sales to poorer countries could give the old production lines a new lease on life.

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Many of the jobs are in sales and marketing, bolstering the 20-year-old firm's search for new clients.

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In place of the old taxes, the reform calls for a new consumption-based tax system, largely via expanding and slightly increasing the state sales tax.

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