Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshman seller (who retired at the end of the year) made enough money to buy a television set. But most of the students do it as a favor and don't make much profit off their sales. The ones who do are the larger dealers in the Cambridge area (some of them former Harvard students), who in turn get drugs from New York and, ultimately, from Mexico...
Their place of prominence has long since been taken over by managers of institutional funds who buy and sell huge blocks of stock without batting an eye. Only occasionally can the little man make his presence felt-and last week came one of those occasions. Upset by the Middle East war crisis and given a Memorial Day holiday to worry about investments, tens of thousands of small shareholders sold off so heavily that the Big Board registered its sharpest single-day drop since last October...
...first product was deep in debt and floundering in mismanagement when, in 1964, General Electric bought half of the firm for $43 million. Charles de Gaulle had hoped for a "French solution" to Bull's problems, but when none could be found he reluctantly permitted G.E. to buy in. Since then, Machines Bull has continued to lose money. It suffered a $23,243,673 loss last year because of rising costs, inventory problems and penalty payments for slow deliveries that wiped out the benefits of an 11.4% rise in sales to $110 million...
...found a ready market for the English pub-dart-board, half-pint mugs, Watney-Mann beer and all-overseas. Düsseldorfs Victoria was opened last week in a sort of tip-for-tap deal with local owners (Watney's supplies advice on "authentic" details, the pubs buy Watney-Mann's beer); more of them are planned for Madrid, Florence and other cities...
...made whisky only for his own use, he spoke gently. "George, the commercial distillers put out a real good product these days, and they sell it at a reasonable price. I know you don't have much money, but it would be far better for you simply to buy a bottle every now and then than to keep on making this stuff and keep on getting caught...