The rate in the comparable period a year ago was 7.8 million.

The company reported a $21.2 million loss in the comparable period last year.

But its car sales were up nearly 40 percent from the comparable period last year.

Those 15 years have been better than any comparable period in American stock market history.

It rose 3.3 percent from the comparable period last year.

Orders for the first four months of 1992 were 6.2 percent higher than in the comparable period a year earlier.

The number of sales is way up from the comparable period a year ago, and prices are still high.

It sold only 89 cars in the comparable period last year.

This was the highest level on record and an 18 percent increase from the comparable period last year.

Net income was up from $134 million in the comparable period last year.

Never before had so much wealth been produced during a comparable period.

That level of profits is 7.9 percent better than the comparable period last year.

There was no comparison number for the comparable period a year earlier.

Its net income was $8.1 million, a 27 percent increase from the comparable period a year earlier.

Over all, car and truck sales dropped 2.3 percent from the comparable period a year ago.

For the first nine months of 1988, foreign orders were nearly 95 percent higher than in the comparable period last year.

Customs Service figures for a comparable period were not available.

House sales over the six months went up from 357 units for the previous comparable period to 409.

Software revenues in particular were up 25.5 percent over the comparable period a year ago.

The figure compared with net income of $22.3 million in the comparable period last year.

He said this marked a drop of nearly 50 percent from the comparable period last year.

Baseball's attendance is down more than 20 percent over the comparable period last year.

Revenue for the second quarter was $5.78 billion, little changed from the comparable period last year.

The company said the decline would be about 26 percent from its earnings in the comparable period a year ago.

The company said profits for the quarter were up 110 percent from the comparable period a year ago.