How much revenue you draw from your sales pipeline depends on the twin standards of sales success: quantity and quality.

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Confirming this strain on physical silver supplies, just this morning the RCM went on allocation, limiting the quantity of sales of the popular Silver Maple Leaf coin.

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Retail sales numbers measure dollar figures, not quantity or quality of goods.

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The algorithm could be of great interest to Twitter, which could charge a premium for ads linked to popular topics, but it also represents a new approach to statistical analysis that could, in theory, apply to any quantity that varies over time: the duration of a bus ride, ticket sales for films, maybe even stock prices.

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Partly thanks to government subsidies, the wineries have raised the quantity and quality of their output, won a few international awards and notched up modest export sales.

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