The companies will have to sell about 2,400, or 15 percent, of its stations.

The Observer was seeking to sell about 80 percent of it, not the whole thing, the person close to the situation said.

"Eventually most will sell for about 80 percent of their asking price."

The state plans to sell about 66 percent of the company in three or four stages.

Of those, Cuba sold about 60 percent and the company the rest.

We've found that we sell about 40 percent of what we put on every week.

"For the past few years, I've been selling about 50 percent more every year," he said.

Last year, it sold about 100,000 of them, or 2 percent of the total.

The cards commonly sell for about 80 percent of face value.

At the time, the company said it planned to sell about 20 percent of Monsanto to the public in 2001.