Word: buy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Voke also said pointedly that if Dukakis' goal was to "buy off" the cities and towns with generous amounts of local aid, his tactic did not work because legislators are not hearing calls from local officials to support the tax package...
They own Los Angeles' Arco Plaza. In New York City they have scooped up the Exxon Building, the Algonquin Hotel and the vaultlike home of Tiffany & Co. They are beating the U.S. at everything from VCRs to semiconductors. And now they are trying to buy U.S. colleges...
Allowing Japan to buy into U.S. schools worries some American educators, who fear this would be the ultimate technology transfer. But the deals also provide vital links to Japanese business, a chance for American students and faculty to be exposed to that country's culture, and, not incidentally, a source of revenue for U.S. institutions. "I see it as an opportunity," says George Smith, assistant to the president at Warner Pacific. "There is no question that higher education will be more international in the future...
...brothers do seem to see their futures in the same arena: the rapidly expanding leisure industry. Seiji's Seibu Saison Group is branching out into hotels and what he calls the "comprehensive life-style" business. He wants customers at his stores to be able to buy a traveling bag, put it to use by booking a package tour, and take out a loan to pay for the journey. Yoshiaki has his own growth plans: he is looking at the expanding market in cable television and optical-fiber communications, in addition to more familiar resort-development projects at home and abroad...
...before, sports-car bores were a bit after that and college-tuition bores are now. Some self-pleased gasbag was always bombinating lengthily about his new airtight Jotul 118 or Vermont Castings Defiant or Fisher Papa Bear. (Yes, suburban trendies, from South Carolina to north of Boston, would actually buy, and get all gooey over, a 200-lb. hunk of welded steel that some marketing genius had called a Papa Bear.) This ecological wonder, the braggart would assure other wood burners waiting their turn to boast, would oxidize for 18 hours on a couple of pieces of wet popple...