At the time of this writing (November 2007) Apple had sold a whopping 100 million iPods, and is on track to ship more than 200 million iPods by the end of 2008 and 300 million by the close of 2009.
After touching 143, the price (ie of shares on the stock-market) fell back to 108 by the close of trading.
Consider that in 1990, roughly half the global population lived on less than $1 a day; by 2007, the proportion had shrunk to 28 percent -- and it will be lower still by the close of 2010.
Distance is invisible in interpersonal relationships. It will not change because of your own personal joy and evil, and it will not disappear by the close of each other, because everyone is an independent individual.
The falls in Shanghai depressed sentiment in other Erading with all of the major European indices trading lower - though they clawed back most of the losses by the close of play.
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