These areas had been touched, tagged on the four-sided chart inside his personal ledger, then washed clean of ink and forgotten.

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Think of it like the ledger of your personal checkbook, which shows money coming in, money going out and the remaining balance.

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On the positive side of the ledger there was strong year-over-year growth in personal desktop computers (32.8%), automobiles (18.6%), and buses (57.3%).

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