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a price list or price catalog (price catalog) that each such
manufacturer distributed to heavy truck dealers, including
Mountain State Ford. On a periodic basis, each manufacturer
updated its price catalog to reflect any changes in the prices of
such manufacturer's parts and distributed such updated price
catalogs to Mountain State Ford and other heavy truck dealers.
During the period 1980 through 1991, Ford distributed approxi-
mately four to six updated price catalogs each year.
The different types of parts that Mountain State Ford
carried fluctuated in quantity, but usually totaled about 12,000
out of approximately 17,000 potential different types of parts.
For each such type of part, Mountain State Ford could have
carried as few as one unit or as many as several dozen units,
each or several of which it acquired at different times and
different prices and from different manufacturers. The units of
different types of parts in Mountain State Ford's parts inventory
turned over at different rates. While Mountain State Ford's
parts inventory generally turned over every 3 or 4 months, some
units of different types of parts were in its parts inventory for
more than 12 months.
The respective manufacturers of the different types of parts
carried by Mountain State Ford assigned parts numbers (parts
numbers) to those types of parts. During any year, a manufac-
turer could have (1) changed a part number for a type of part
without altering that type of part and/or (2) added a new part
number because it altered an existing type of part and/or occa-
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