All this led Tung Chee-hwa, the chief executive, to announce on June 22nd the unprecedented suspension of government sales of new land until next spring.

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The FDA had been poised to allow over-the-counter sales with no age limits when Sebelius took the unprecedented step of overruling the agency.

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The problem is software and services, however successful, are unlikely to generate the kind of outsize profit growth from rising sales of iPhones and iPads that drove Apple's shares to unprecedented highs last year.

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Sweden has been involved in arms sales to Saudi Arabia in the past, but the planned factory is seen as unprecedented.

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Of course, even partial recovery from the plunge in business and earnings caused by unprecedented 3.11 disasters and Thai floods ensures eye-catching ly favorable quarter on quarter sales and profit comparisons as the year progresses.

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The Mint also announced Thursday that with sufficient gold and silver on hand to meet anticipated coin demand, it will not allocate sales to dealers in early 2012, as has been the case for several years, due to unprecedented demand and a lack of bullion supply.

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