Word: buying
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...sign another wheat agreement with India - to replace one that expires Dec. 31. The long delay reflected the White House view that India could be moving faster in modernizing its agriculture and that other countries must share the burden by providing grain, fertilizer or the hard currency to buy...
...attempts to starve out its enemies have hardly been more successful. Washington tried to topple Dictator Rafael Trujillo by refusing to buy Dominican sugar and cutting off his supply of oil and auto parts. But it was an assassin's bullet, not dollar pressure, that brought him down. Cuba's Fidel Castro, with massive support from Russia, has managed to survive six years of U.S. embargo. U.S. pressure to cut off all trade with Red China was another notable flop: Canada alone in the past six years has sold Peking a whopping $926 million worth of wheat...
...what I've always wanted." At his home in Washington's Wesley Heights, Symington took delivery on a snappy used "pedicab" he bought for $30 in Kuala Lumpur last October. "At first," he said, "I couldn't get the driver to believe I wanted to buy the thing from him-he thought I just wanted a ride." Thing is, just about everyone in Wesley Heights wants a ride now. "I've been a lot more popular lately with the neighborhood kids," puffed Symington...
...operations and print both London papers on the Sunday Times's modernized presses.* In that case, the Guardian, which prints on the Sunday Time's presses, and the Sunday Observer, which uses the daily Times's plant, might be put in the position of having to buy the daily plant...
...Leyland Motor Corp., the Commonwealth's largest producer of heavy trucks, last week made an apparently successful $70-million bid to buy the Rover Co., whose Land Rover sales have been hit by Japanese competition. With 70,000 employees and $840-million-a-year revenue from 10% of the passenger-car and 25% of the commercial-vehicle markets, Leyland-Rover would become Britain's No. 3 automak er, after British Motor Corp. and Ford. Though the marriage seems to be one of necessity. Leyland Chairman Sir William Black says that Rover has been "a glint...