1.   And sales plunged for electronics sellers.

2.   At butcher stores, beef sales have plunged, and now sausage sales have begun to follow.

3.   Automobile sales are plunging across much of Europe, but particularly in Germany, where the government has imposed big increases in gasoline taxes in the last year.

4.   Beef and sausage sales have plunged, while poultry is in unprecedented demand.

5.   Beef sales have plunged, as they have elsewhere in Europe, and prices for poultry and fish have risen.

6.   After rising for the first three months of the year, domestic sales have plunged since.

7.   But as personal insurance sales plunged amid the publicity over sales scandals, the need to cut costs became even more acute.

8.   But the Excel was undone by serious quality problems, and Hyundai sales plunged as fast as they had risen.

9.   Car sales plunged alarmingly in the spring, leaving the chief executives of the Big Three shaken.

10.   Even at Saturn, once a bright spot for GM, sales are plunging and workers are growing worried.