But after the recession of 1982-83, sales never really recovered.
After a significant drop, sales of Celebrex have recovered, and reached $2 billion in 2006.
But the song's popularity had ended, and sales never recovered.
He said that his company's sales would recover in about six months.
Both retail and vehicle sales recovered the next month.
But foreign sales fell by half in the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990's and never recovered.
Through the first 11 months of 1989, the industry's sales recovered to $119 billion, but 77 percent went into money market accounts.
Retail sales were recovering strongly at the end of 2010, but then plummeted in January.
If sales are recovering from sluggish levels early in the year, that still has not yet correlated with profitability.
Last month, sales recovered to a rate of approximately 16 million units.