11. First, the report reflects actual sales for the first half of the month and includes an estimate for the second half. 12. Few consumers realize it, but many dealers get more of their profits from add-on products and services than from the actual sale. 13. He picks stocks with high-quality earnings, avoiding or betting against those whose gains result more from accounting cleverness than from actual sales. 14. He would also pay his clients less than the actual sale price and keep the rest for himself. 15. In general, the state discourages the private enterprises by taxing them heavily on expected earnings rather than on actual sales. 16. In essence, these techniques provide most of the practical effects of a sale without requiring an actual sale. 17. In the normal course of business, information about an actual sale would overwrite any false data. 18. It measures actual sales for the first half of the month and estimates sales during the second half. 19. Military exchanges, which are department stores that are not subsidized, would be responsible for managing the actual sales of cigarettes and chewing tobacco. 20. Morgenthau said that the defendants kept the difference between the actual sale price and the inflated price they charged. |