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The sales continued to denude the palace: Raphael's " Ansidei Madonna " was sold for £ 70, 000 ; Van Dyck ’ s equestrian painting of Charles I realised £ 17, 500 ; and finally the " piece de resistance " of the collection, Peter Paul Rubens Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment, and Their Son Peter Paul, which had been given by the city of Brussels to the 1st Duke in 1704, was also sold, and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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Then he could tell them to go home, while the administration continued to wage the battle with the $28 million in extra revenues the sales tax measure would bring in over an eight months period.
During 1990, the Lynx had moderate sales but Nintendo's Game Boy continued to gain market share.
However sales of Jane Eyre continued to be strong, and may have increased as a result of the novel developing a reputation as an ' improper ' book.
Total sales of the ColecoVision are uncertain but were ultimately in excess of 2 million units, as sales had reached that number by the spring of 1984, while the console continued to sell modestly up until its discontinuation the following year.
Strong sales continued in Australia, and Holden achieved a market share of more than 50 percent in 1958 with the revised FC model.
All these versions continued version 3. 0's impressive sales pace.
Whereas most computer games of the era would achieve initial success and then suffer a significant drop-off in sales, Infocom titles continued to sell for years and years.
For example, because Zork was available for years after its initial release in 1980, it continued to top charts in sales well into the mid-1980s.
When Congress prohibited further funding to the Contras, Reagan continued the funding through arms sales that were also prohibited by Congress.
TiVo ended UK unit sales in January 2003, though it continued to sell subscriptions and supply guide data to existing subscribed units until June 2011.
Dodge Brothers cars continued to rank second place in American sales in 1920.
Kodak ceased sales of standard 8 mm film in the early 1990s, but continued to manufacture the film, which was sold via independent film stores.
The company continued to prosper under Williams for some years, but by 1995, it had fallen behind several other companies in overall sales.
Her critical stature continued to grow but record sales remained modest.
However in 2005, while earnings and sales continued to rise, sales growth slowed considerably, and the company stock lost 25 % of its value that year.
The Fixicos had no legal right at the time to sell their holding, as enrollment of tribal members on the Dawes Roll continued until 1906, and no land sales were to take place by Indians until it was completed.
" Because of strong video sales, the studio continued to make these films in spite of negative critical reaction ; 2001's Cinderella II: Dreams Come True received a rare zero-percent rating from the review-aggregating website Rotten Tomatoes.
: The Civic-based 1. 6 EL replaces the Integra sedan in the Canadian lineup, while the Integra sedan continued U. S. sales until 2001
Selwyn Edge bought the company outright for £ 135, 000 in 1927 and re-registered it as AC ( Acedes ) Ltd but sales, which had been falling, continued to decline.
The album, Harbor, released in February 1977, continued the trend of decreasing sales for the group.
As the 1990s continued, the Melody Makers ' sales slowly declined, beginning with Joy and Blues ( 1993 ) and continuing with Free Like We Want 2 B ( 1995 ).
Covering the 16-bit computer, the magazine continued for another eight years until the last issue was published in October 1998 when EMAP opted to close the magazine due to falling sales and a change in focus for EMAP.
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In 1921, it was converted into a movie and vaudeville palace known as Keith's Capitol Theatre ; after later sales it was renamed the RKO International.
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In the United Kingdom, despite sporadically high sales of singles such as " You'll See " ( a # 5 hit in 1995 ) and " Don't Cry for Me Argentina " ( a # 3 success ), " Frozen " was seen as the " big comeback " for Madonna, and became her first ever single to debut at number-one, selling 508, 296 copies.
Ticket sales were swift in London on April 25, as Madonna sold out her dates at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in record time-six shows in six hours.
It was shot alongside the Estée Lauder " Beyond Paradise " fragrance television advert to maximise sales of both the fragrance and single, Madonna provided the theme song to the commercial.
" The pair agreed to let Madonna use the sample only after making a copyright agreement that entitled them to a significant share of the royalties from subsequent sales and airplay.
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Corroborating Mr. Hodges' figures was the Federal Reserve Board's report of the large sales increase in the nation's department stores for the week ending March 4.
In 1931 Mrs. F. H. Briggs, agent and chief operator, who was to retire in 1946 with thirty years' service, led agency offices in sales for the year with $2,490.
Mr. Black's life was an open book, so to speak, from his birth in Jackson, Mississippi, through his basketball-playing days at L.S.U. and his attainment of a B.A. degree, which had presumably prepared him for his career as district sales manager for Peerless Business Machines.
Indeed, the administration's curious position on the sales tax was a major factor in contributing to its defeat.
However, compared with March 1960 new car sales of 4,441, this March was off 23 per cent.
A substantial rise in new orders and sales of durable goods was reported for last month.
This was the chief reason for a so-so sales outlook given by two-thirds of 56 builders polled by the National Housing Center.
The rise in sales last winter was checked when the Government's new feed grain program was adopted ; ;
And the hours were six-thirty in the morning until eleven at night on Saturdays and during sales, and there were no chairs and you couldn't smoke and the cooling was overhead fans and there was no porter or janitor.
When he was made a vice president only a year after the new sales job, a leading business magazine ran his photograph with a brief biography in a series on national business leaders of the future.
At its peak, the Electron was the third best selling micro in the United Kingdom, and total lifetime game sales for the Electron exceeded those of the BBC Micro.
The Electron was developed during 1983 as a cheap sibling for the BBC Micro with the intention of capturing the low-cost Christmas sales market for that year.
This was a blow from which the machine never fully recovered, although games sales for it would ultimately outstrip those of the BBC Micro.
The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.
Gauntlett also led the sales team, and after some development and a lot of publicity when it became the world ’ s fastest 4-seater production car, was able to sell the Aston Martin Lagonda in Oman, Kuwait, and Qatar.
What was surprising was the sudden entry into the market of new competition, whose machines quickly cut off the sales of the 2600.
While it touted superior graphics to the 2600 and Mattel's Intellivision, the system was initially incompatible with the 2600s expansive library of games, and some market analysts have speculated that this hurt its sales especially since an Atari 2600 cartridge adapter had been released for the Intellivision II.
The Atari 7800 languished on warehouse shelves until it was re-introduced in January 1986 after strong 2600 sales the previous Christmas.
However, the Lynx failed to achieve the sales numbers required to attract quality third party developers, and was eventually abandoned.
The only exception to this rule is New Year's Day, in which case alcohol sales are permitted until 4 a. m. Alcohol sale was likewise banned on Sundays until 12p. m., and on Dec. 25 from 12 a. m. until 12 p. m, until a repeal in late 2010.
Late in 2010, some Congressmen ( after the four-day Bicentennial holiday was proved successful ) asked for a law that would forbid the opening of supermarkets and department stores on Sundays, however retailers claimed that Sunday shopping made about 20 % of their weekly sales, more than other day of the week, thus preventing the law from taking place.
In 1868 a Michaux cycle was brought to Coventry, England by Rowley Turner, sales agent of the Coventry Sewing Machine Company ( which soon became the Coventry Machinist Company ).
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