We started in 1998 and 1999, a couple years after we'd sold out of the cable business--running music festivals on the anniversary weekend of Woodstock with musicians who'd played at Woodstock and others who were more popular then.

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Fortune's Phillip Elmer-Dewitt noted his findings, as well as a separate Deutsche Bank analysis in which 75 percent of Apple Stores surveyed said they'd sold out of the iPhone 4S by the end of the day Friday.

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When Eastern's check bounced, Rings discovered he was one of hundreds of sellers across 30 states who'd sold to the company, was out his money and was left with the distinct impression that something doesn't smell right in cattle country.

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Some sold out to what used to be called developers, and they'd put in five or ten poorly built houses.

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There were a lot of jockeys who were making a lot of money, and they'd finish a race, and they found out they had been sold to another plantation, but, you know, they made a lot of money.

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In the mid-1960s Price sold out to his employees for around a million dollars and then was shunted aside by the company he'd founded.

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