Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tough new law cut the desertion rate in half in 1967, it is still disappointingly high: more than one in ten ARVN soldiers go permanently AWOL, accounting for 70% of the ARVN's personnel losses. Draft dodging remains a national sport; even if caught, an affluent youth can buy his way out for $750 or less...
...cash exercise a vital form of political expression: they provide a basic nourishment of democracy. "Money," says California Democratic Boss Jesse Unruh, "is the mother's milk of politics." Yet Americans remain deeply suspicious of the campaign spending essential to effective elections. They fear that political contributors buy political influence. They know that even the nation's greatest political figures flout the laws regulating political fund raising. Such is the resulting public cynicism that only 10% of Americans make political contributions. Most of the political dollars come in large sums from a tiny percentage of the population...
...that bundle will go to pay for stretched jet transports, jumbo jets and supersonic aircraft already on order. Scheduled U.S. airlines last year took delivery of 388 new jet planes-a rate of more than one a day-at a cost of $2.1 billion. They are committed to buy $10.5 billion worth of new jets (including options) by the end of 1971. That is enough equipment to accommodate the 300 million passengers they foresee by 1975, a 140% increase from last year's 125 million...
...while others simply disliked Staechelin (many a Easier had owned stock in the airline, and many others lost their jobs when it went bankrupt). The anti-Picasso faction drummed up enough signatures on a petition to force a referendum. After a spirited campaign, the city opted last week to buy the Picassos by a vote of 32,118 to 27,190. With the money assured, the city government cannily required the foundation, as part of the final transaction, to leave the impressionists and postimpressionists on loan for the next 15 years. And Picasso himself was so touched that he announced...
...today's overcrowded art market, the museum director in search of new acquisitions finds himself in much the same position as a stockbroker in a runaway bull market. If he buys the current favorites, he will get popular pictures-at an inflated price. The cheaper but far riskier alternative is to buy undervalued art of a period or artist not yet discovered or out of fashion. This is the course chosen by Director Sherman Lee of Cleveland's Museum of Art, who invested the museum's $1,731,557 purchase fund for 1967 in 132 different works...