21.   Since few companies offer interactive booking, actual sales from the Internet have been quite limited.

22.   That lets buyers place new orders or cancel existing orders based on actual sales.

23.   That was better-than expected, and the number of bids to actual sales was in line with past numbers.

24.   The actual sale would occur sometime in December.

25.   The actual sale will be completed through Ticketmaster Group Inc., Sprint said.

26.   The actual sales will be done by Merrill Lynch Capital Services Inc., another subsidiary, and DKB Financial Products Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of the Japanese bank.

27.   The difference is that those companies publish actual sales and profits, not projected numbers.

28.   The favorable opinion was issued, but the state regulator later attached a condition to an actual stock sale that Madison Guaranty was unable to meet.

29.   The technique involves investors selling short shares of stock identical to those they hold, thereby locking in past gains without making an actual sale.

30.   The terms of the securities are provided in a supplemental filing prior to the actual sale.