The company projects initial nationwide sales of 350,000 for the magazine, which will be published every two months.

For example, nationwide sales the week ending Jan. 12, the week of the Northeast blizzard, were 24 percent higher than those of the previous week.

But ring tones, which have been projected to generate $600 million in nationwide sales this year, are only part of the puzzle.

By October, nationwide sales were back up and continued to rise (or stayed the same) in November, except in the Northeast.

The increase in the index was accompanied by a hefty November gain in Chicago-area industrial activity and a surprising decline in nationwide sales of new homes.

By 1986, the company had nearly 1,200 employees, nationwide sales of $95.2 million and an income of $4.2 million.

Those infomercials have become so popular over the last five years that nationwide sales generated by them increased, to $900 million last year from $350 million in 1988.

He looks over the nationwide sales of the kimble gun.

Indeed, nationwide sales of Major League Baseball's licensed products - from T-shirts to baby bottles carrying team logos - were $1.7 billion last year.

Estimates of nationwide sales of organic food vary.