This is what his voice sells, the way Sinatra once sold an implacable but supple kind of confidence.
Koetsu once sold his house to raise the money 30 gold coins for a particularly famous old tea caddy he yearned to buy.
Harry Herbert, manager of two leading British racing syndicates, says that horses that once sold for a couple of hundred thousand pounds now go for half a million.
The company has been unable to come up with a successor to its iconic Razr phones, which once sold for a healthy premium but are now approaching commodity status.
In cholesterol-lowering drugs, one of the biggest categories, generic versions of Lipitor, Zocor, and Pravachol, once sold by Pfizer, Merck, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, now account for 64% of all cholesterol drug sales.
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Baycol, a statin once sold by Bayer (nyse: BAY - news - people ), was pulled from the market after muscle damage caused kidney problems and death in dozens of patients.
In 1992, the British designer Vivienne Westwood, who used to dress the Sex Pistols and once sold bondage gear out of a shop she ran with rock manager Malcolm McLaren, received an Order of the British Empire from the Queen.
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There has been increasing buzz on the Street lately about the possibility that HP might spin off its PC business to focus on its enterprise software and services business, in the same way that IBM once sold off its own PC and notebooks units.
We held that core position back to the highs from late 2009, and once again sold when excitement reached a fever pitch.
Replicas of him, once mainly sold around Brussels as corkscrews and in snow globes, are now also cast in colorful chocolate and as lollipops.
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Once they sold some the first time, they saw how easy it was to make a phone call and receive a check in the mail.
Once they have sold you the phone, that is where they can garner a continuing series of revenues.
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Serbia may have buffed up Zastava, but once it is sold, the road for other privatisations will be downhill.
They were more normally created, sold once and then stuck in the basement vaults of those who bought them.
"Once you have sold playing fields, they have gone forever, " he said.
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Once the company sold its stake in Mosaic, officials at the nonprofits were able to exchange the private Cargill stock for public Mosaic stock.
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But once a firm sold a farmer the seeds of an apomictic crop, it would be difficult to stop him from saving seeds and growing them in future years.
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Once the woodland is sold off that's it - there is no going back.
Once a city has sold its soul to the car, it is probably too late to get it back.
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But once a company has sold a product, it should not be able to prevent its resale, provided that the product has not been tampered with.
Corporate executives should be paid bonuses in shares that can be sold only once they leave the company, and the bonuses of asset managers should consist of holdings in their own funds.
But Ms Stirling added that a second element, where the UK government would provide a loan of up to 20% of the equity, repayable once a home was sold, was for England only.
The Supreme Court rejected that idea, saying once the publisher had sold a book, the new owner could resell it for whatever price he wanted, or even lend it out for free (see: public libraries).
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Once you've sold shares using this averaging method, you're stuck with using it for that fund, even if it's held in a different account, warns Kaye Thomas, a tax lawyer and author of Capital Gains, Minimal Taxes.
But another reason for chasing children is that a channel, once created, can be sold abroad.
It seemed to work once before, when he sold slumping Broderbund Software to the Learning Company, giving shareholders a 21% premium.
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