Word: buyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company set the closing for Aug. 7, in the slim hope that a dark-horse buyer would come forward during the two-week grace period. Otherwise the nation's capital will be left with only one major newspaper, the Washington Post (daily circ. 618,000). This was cause for mourning in a city where decision makers depend on a full and vigorous airing of important public issues. "An extremely sad day," said President Ronald Reagan. Added House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "We ought to have newspapers expressing opposite philosophies." Even the victor in this journalistic struggle...
...There are many nuances in the market. Russian enamel is soft because a major American buyer is out of the market. Nineteenth century Dutch painting is off because of the prospects of a Socialist-dominated government in Holland, which has depressed demand from Dutch citizens...
...encourages them to pay a higher price. This creates an inflationary spiral and sets a standard for property values in each neighborhood." Harvard officials, such as O'Brien, deny that the option plan has a "significant" effect on the Cambridge housing market. "Our faculty is as prudent a buyer as anyone else," O'Brien says...
...margin the councilors then rejected a series of amendments offered by councilor Kevin Crane '72 aimed at watering down the condo law, before voting to move several amendments offered by David Sullivan closer to passage. Sullivan's amendments would allow prosecution even before a condo buyer had moved into his unit...
...they are offering the option because the housing market is currently in such sad shape. Says Lynn Krause, a builder in Joliet, Ill.: "I'd rather have people buy on a leased-land basis .than not at all." Part of the reason business is sluggish is that buyers are rebelling at the high price of a plot of land. Says Otto J. Paparazzo, a builder in Woodbury, Conn.: "Land is becoming so difficult to zone and improve that I don't think we can pass the costs on to the buyer any more...