Sales for the first nine months of 2003 dipped 7.4 percent compared with the same period last year.

But as sales dipped for the nation's department stores, the time never seemed right, the experts said.

Although sales dipped slightly last month, the decline was from a record in June.

In the second week, the album's sales dipped to 28,348.

In the period, sales dipped to $343 million from $361 million.

Sales dipped 4 percent, to $546 million from $569 million.

In 1997, the company's low point, annual sales dipped to $17 million from $24 million a few years earlier.

Kate says we can expect sales to dip, then level off.

Its sales have dipped accordingly, leading to a string of losses.

Earnings declined some 42 percent and sales dipped 4 percent from the period a year earlier.