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By selling out to the foreign investors, former owners had the choice of pocketing a huge profit and perhaps staying on as consultant or manager, or simply taking the cash and leaving the impending problems of modernization to the new owners.
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By 2008, sales in the US reached $ 14. 6 billion, the biggest selling drugs in the US by therapeutic class.
By expanding the conditions for which they were indicated, Astrazeneca's Seroquel and Eli Lilly's Zyprexa had become the biggest selling antipsychotics in 2008 with global sales of $ 5. 5 billion and $ 5. 4 billion respectively.
By 1888, over 3, 000 British public houses, grocers and chemists were selling Bovril.
By the recent turn of the century, however, his paintings were selling for millions.
By the end of this conflict, Commodore had shipped somewhere around 22 million C64s — making the C64 the best selling computer of all time.
By 1959, the company had dealers across the U. S. and began selling the 310 ( known as Bluebird domestically ).
By age nine he was growing, grinding, bottling and selling his own brand of horseradish sauce, based on his mother's recipe.
By the mid-1970s filmmakers avoided the genre in favor of using music by popular rock or pop bands as background music, partly in hope of selling a soundtrack album to fans.
" By 1884 he was selling Moxie both in bottles and in bulk as a soda fountain syrup.
By 2009, 27 coffee shops selling cannabis in Rotterdam, all within 200 metres from schools, must close down.
By 1955, restaurants throughout the area were using the term " hoagie ", with many selling hoagies and subs or hoagies and pizza.
" By 2005 Škoda was selling over 30, 000 cars a year in the UK, a market share of over 1 %.
By simply selling their work for wages, " workers simultaneously lose connection with the object of labor and become objects themselves.
By selling vast quantities of shrimp and catfish to the U. S., Vietnam triggered antidumping complaints by the U. S., which imposed tariffs in the case of catfish and was considering doing the same for shrimp.
By the time the game was released for the Sega Saturn in Japan, the game and system were selling at almost a one-to-one ratio.
By occasionally selling off minute quantities of the metal, T ' Chaka funded his country's education.
* By this year, the Portuguese colony of Brazil has between 400 mills producing 57, 000 tons of sugar a year and 230 mills producing 14, 000 tons ( estimates vary ) The wealth the Portuguese acquire from selling sugar in Europe prompts the English and French to follow suit in this century.
By the late 1980s, complete Synclavier systems were selling for upwards of $ 200, 000, to famous musicians such as Sting, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, and to major studios the world over.
By selling the product in the market he pays rent of land, wages to labour, interest on capital and what remains is his profit.
By this point, Queen's vast amount of record sales made them the second best selling artist in the UK of all time, behind The Beatles.
* By functions: production, selling, distribution, administration, R & D, development,
By 110 BCE Emperor Wu also interfered with the profitable trade in grain when he eliminated speculation by selling government-stored grain at a lower price than demanded by merchants.
By 1977, the company was selling a heat-resistant duct tape for heating ducts.
By 1865 he had moved into banking and specialized in selling municipal, state, and government bonds.
By 1942 Rockefeller had become increasingly impatient that his purchased property might never be added to the park, and wrote to the Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes that he was considering selling the land to another party.
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By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.
By holding out prospects for external capital assistance, the United States can provide strong incentives to prepare for the concerted economic drive necessary to achieve self-sustaining growth.
By tradition, a red wine should be served at approximately room temperature -- if anything a little cooler -- and be aged enough for the tannin and acids to have worked out and the sediment have settled well.
By trying to be both a serious survey of a bygone era and a showcase for today's artists, the program turned out to be a not-quite-perfect example of either.
By and large, Robert McEnroe's adaptation of Maurice Walsh's film, `` The Quiet Man '', provides the entertainment it set out to, and we have a lively musical show if not a superlative one.
By the time we arrived and entered the building sacred music was already swelling out into the chapel-like auditorium with its discreet symbols of religious faiths.
By contrast, the cursive developed out of the Nabataean alphabet in the same period soon became the standard for writing Arabic, evolving into the Arabic alphabet as it stood by the time of the early spread of Islam.
By the summer of 1823, Alcott returned to Connecticut in debt to his father, who bailed him out after his last two unsuccessful sales trips.
By spring 1979 unrests had reached 24 out of 28 Afghan provinces including major urban areas.
By 1980, the way the game was played had changed dramatically due to innovative coaching tactics, with the phasing out of many of the game's kicking styles and the increasing use of handball ; whilst presentation was influenced by television.
By the lake is the Daulat Bāgh, a garden laid out by Emperor Jahāngīr.
Professor Henry Higgins sings, " Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters / Condemned by every syllable she utters / By right she should be taken out and hung / For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
By 1993, all of the fixed-wing aircraft of the original EHV ( with the exception of the two old Nord 262 transports ) had been taken out of service, and either scrapped, sold off, or abandoned.
" By about 15: 00 the Swiss had been pushed out of the village into the marshes beyond.
By repeating the experiment with particles of inorganic matter he was able to rule out that the motion was life-related, although its origin was yet to be explained.
By the charter renewal in 1781 it was also the bankers ' bank – keeping enough gold to pay its notes on demand until 26 February 1797 when war had so diminished gold reserves that the government prohibited the Bank from paying out in gold.
By definition, where a director enters into a transaction with a company, there is a conflict between the director's interest ( to do well for himself out of the transaction ) and his duty to the company ( to ensure that the company gets as much as it can out of the transaction ).
By the late 19th century, square dances too had fallen out of favor, except in rural areas.
By the 18th century, the Ottoman Empire was driven out of Hungary, and Austria brought the empire under central control.
By rules, place bets are NOT working on the come out roll but can be " turned on " by the player.
By the 16th century, Cairo also had high-rise apartment buildings where the two lower floors were for commercial and storage purposes and the multiple stories above them were rented out to tenants.
By the twelfth century great churches in Germany, like those elsewhere were finding it difficult to hold out against the accumulation of lay custom and lay objections to temporary inheritance.
By the 1880s, Pissarro began to explore new themes and methods of painting in order to break out of what he felt was an artistic “ mire ”.
By staying in their midst, she could live out her rejection of them more strongly.
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