However, it added sales would be 1% lower than last year on a like-for-like basis.
But paper scavengers like Tam are making much less money today than last year.
Retail sales on Black Friday were 6.6 percent higher this year than last year.
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"I see things to indicate pricing will be far more stable than last year, " he said.
The company said that its profit margin, at 10.5%, was a shade lower than last year's.
The firm said it expected full-year 2001 profit and sales to be higher than last year.
Things are indeed improving, but the year will still end lower than last year.
Retail sales are expected to grow this Christmas, but at a slower pace than last year.
Perhaps this year it can do as well or even better than last year.
An average 111.3 million viewers tuned in on television, about 300, 000 more than last year.
That was 46 cents higher than last year, an increase of nearly 20 percent.
Most all agree that online sales and traffic have been quite significantly higher than last year.
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Nothing has done more harm to Mr Davis's reputation than last year's electricity crisis.
Customer churn, or turnover, was slightly higher than last year's first quarter, at 4.7%.
It has 10 more than last year but 56 fewer than its 2008 peak.
In each case, these rates were approximately 10 percentage points higher than last year.
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Should that happen, it be a 32% smaller loss than last year but lighter sales, too.
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Sixty-nine percent of returning students said they spent less on technology and media than last year.
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Seventy-eight women make the list, 10 more than last year, though only 6 are self-made.
The cattle are getting fatter with carcass weights around 2 % higher than last year.
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It spreads throughout Japan, and has origins that go much further back than last year.
In any case, the Jakarta meeting should be less contentious than last year's gathering in Brunei.
"I don't think it gets much better than last year, " Geraghty told BBC Sport.
Nike (NKE): The depth of NKE markdowns was shallower than last year but with broader breadth.
Companies continued to expand their workforces with 600, 000 more jobs created than last year, it said.
Earnings from tourism this year are expected to be 15% lower than last year.
More people are claiming income support in Jersey than last year, according to latest official figures.
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This autumn, though, fewer British students will go to universities in England than last year.
The average here was 90%--again, a little better than last year--sitting within a wide range.
The flu came early this season, and cases are more severe than last year, health officials say.
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