1.  Even though butter makes up about a quarter of the table-spread market, sales are fast outpacing those of its oily cousin, margarine.

2.  Eighty percent of all Halloween costume rentals and 65 percent of sales are for adults, says the National Costumers Association, a trade group.

3.  If sales are increasing now, "there may be more to come" later this summer, he said.

4.  In all, retailers' sales are expected to barely meet, or in some cases miss, modest earlier estimates of a 3 percent to 5 percent rise.

5.  Industry reports suggest, however, that sales are faltering in the critical peak holiday sales season.

6.  It is coming as sales are slumping and the once-infallible upgrade cycle needs a boost.

7.  Its sales are down and losses up.

8.  Kauffman said about a half-percent of the company's total wood sales are of products from the Great Bear Rain Forest.

9.  LaVelle Olexa, the senior vice president for fashion merchandising at Lord & Taylor, said the continued sales are more important than the debut.

10.  Movie options, paperback rights, overseas sales are making its unknown author a millionaire.