While we engaged in numerous partial sales before finally closing out that AAPL position in December 1999, our average gain topped 200%.

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Toyota Motor, which appears to have solidly left behind the supply constraints caused by a tsunami and subsequent partial nuclear meltdown in Japan two years ago, saw sales climb 4.3% to 166, 377 units.

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Partial figures gathered by the International Digital Publishing Forum suggest e-book sales are doing well.

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