21.   But when sales took off, he began to perfect the labor-intensive growing process.

22.   But with competition from Weight Watchers, Lean Cuisine and others, Slim-Fast sales never took off.

23.   By a wide majority, secondary sales take place at relatively high prices and the chore of climbing further is demanding.

24.   By the time the government finally dropped the case, the mainframe business had become static as sales of personal computers took off.

25.   Catalog sales took seven years to become profitable, she said.

26.   Consumer sales have already taken a knock as a result.

27.   Consumer confidence is down, but retail sales took their biggest jump in four months in January.

28.   Does the sale take them out of it?

29.   Even companies in competition with Microsoft stand to see sales take off.

30.   Evern Securities, one of the underwriters of the transaction, said the sale would take place as planned.