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This is a sas imitation of a plot from p. 185 of Stephen Few's
book "Show me the Numbers".

I used a few tricks to get this graph exactly like Stephen's...

I used a numeric variable for the month, to get them in the 
desired order (otherwise they would have been ordered alphabetic,
or numeric ascending/descending).  I then applied a user-defined
format to make the numeric values print as the month abbreviation.

I made the horizontal axis white ('invisible') and the response
axis gray.  I then made the text values on the axes black.

I suppressed the minor tickmarks on the response axis, and made
the major tickmarks slightly longer than usual.

I added a 2nd line to the response axis label -- it contains a 
blank value with a height of 2pct.  I used this blank just to 
add a little extra space.

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