1.   They sold pieces of their product to individual businesses, including your friendly neighborhood Internet provider.

2.   As the story goes, Great-Grandpa took the trunk, learned how to make pastrami, and began selling big pieces of pastrami over the counter.

3.   At others, pieces will be sold to foreign companies.

4.   Attendance was flat, and sales of big-ticket items were slow, but dealers said they sold more pieces than they had in five years.

5.   Banks are approaching lending to large companies as if they were underwriting bonds, selling small pieces to investors, typically regional and foreign banks and mutual funds.

6.   But by selling these pieces, which had also not been exhibited for years, it acknowledged it saw no future use for them in period rooms or elsewhere.

7.   But now early investors are queing up to sell their piece of the action.

8.   Company officials do, however, pledge to make Pemex leaner and more competitive by seeking more foreign investors and selling non-core pieces of the organization.

9.   Daewoo has been trying to sell a piece of itself to General Motors.

10.   Especially if the customer already has a relationship with the company selling the piece and knows it can be returned.