The result: sales of the paper goes up by 50,000 copies.

It missed out on the No. 1 spot by only 2,600 copies.

Circulation declined by more than 700,000 copies a day between 1983 and 1990.

With each successive issue, circulation began to increase by about 5,000 copies.

Selling over 17,000 units, the album lost the top position by less than 300 copies.

The Gazette was leading by only 9,500 copies, compared with 60,000 when the war began.

In 2012, circulation rose again, by more than 1,000 copies, to 24,910.

All claims should be made in writing, accompanied by copies of receipts.

Sunday circulation for all 21 markets combined has fallen by at least 335,000 copies, or 1.6 percent, since 1996.

The paper's average weekday sales declined by 15,196 copies, to 818,231, during the reporting period.