The week before the accident, record sales came in at a pokey 62,000 copies; the week after her death, sales shot up to 306,000 copies, sending Aaliyah's album from 19th on the Billboard 200 record sales chart to number one.
But last spring, after American warplanes bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade -- an act the United States calls an accident -- sales fell off as anti-American sentiment focused on Coke, McDonald's and other American companies in China.
It (and the colleagues in military intelligence) worry about the command and control of Russian forces there, especially those with a access to nuclear weapons (accidents and sales, rather than warfare, being the big worry).
Many other customers seemed to be just discovering, by accident, that Sunday sales were now legal.
Amazingly, the accident seemed to help sales, according to WBZ-TV.
Even though a Lexus ES 350 was involved in a widely publicized accident before the recalls, Lexus sales are up about 5 percent so far in 2010 compared with last year.
Dorries also beat the ebook sales of The Accident by CL Taylor, which racked up 45,173 sales, said the Bookseller, and two books which have been chart-toppers for months: John Green's smash hit The Fault in Our Stars, which came in fourth, with 33,088 ebooks sold, and Jo Nesbo's The Son, trailing with 29,136.
This is a financially dangerous time for the car owner; neither a sale nor an accident that totals the car will yield enough to repay the loan.
(CBS News) Anyone considering the purchase of a used car should make sure they do plenty of research on the vehicle, AOL Autos says, noting that 16 percent of used cars for sale have an accident on their record.
For BP, the Gulf of Mexico accident continues to overhang, with asset sales impacting production," he said.
To Silo's the jewelry sale was but an accident.
