Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a Japanese prepares to make a wish, he is apt to buy a one-eyed doll modeled after the famed Buddhist monk Daruma, who founded the Zen sect 1,500 years ago. Then, if his wish is fulfilled, he completes the Daruma's missing eye as a symbol of gratitude for otherworldly intervention. Last week, in the Tokyo headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Premier Eisaku Sato dipped a sumi brush into an inkstone and with swift strokes daubed in the dark right eye of his Daruma. "The eyes," he remarked when he had finished...
...messages are more overtly menacing, including the display of the body or rotted skull of a dead soldier and the lists of dead North Vietnamese. Facsimiles of North Vietnamese piasters are regularly dropped with the warning that "as the war goes on, there will be less and less to buy. Prices will go higher and higher. You may lose all of your wealth, fruit of your sweat and tears." Propaganda teams deliver personal letters by the thousands to homes of suspected Viet Cong, some frankly designed to so compromise a Viet Cong that he is forced to defect to save...
...side to free enterprise," he continued. "Consumers are also supposed to try to maximize their benefits." The reason prices are high and quality low, Hoffman believes, is that Harvard consumers, like any student population, are uninformed on how to maximize their benefits. They don't know what a good buy is, or when they are being taken advantage of. The guide would correct this, Hoffman said...
...needs, has enough surplus in storage to supply every coffee drinker for more than a year. Though present quotas allow it to sell only about 60% of its average 30-million-bag crops, the growers could not care less. A beneficent government has always stepped in to buy and store the huge excess. But such generosity is coming to an end. With $70 million in government backing, Brazilian Coffee Institute President Leonidas Borio has pioneered a campaign to "break the old taboo that only coffee is important." More with Less. Under the plan, growers are being offered...
Into the bar strolled Sir Alec Guinness, black of face and draped in a floral-print dress stuffed with toweling in the bosom. "Excuse my skirt," he said to Elizabeth Taylor as he bellied up to the bar. "Would someone buy me a beer, please? I'm not carrying any cash tonight. I don't know where I could...