Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concerns are German prestige and pocketbooks. Tops on the agenda is the so-called "offset" agreement by which West Germany helps compensate the U.S. for the cost of maintaining its forces there by purchasing American military equipment. The Germans have fallen $600 million in arrears on their commitment to buy $1.3 billion in U.S. arms during a two-year period ending next June. Erhard's argument is that West Germany needs no more equipment at this time, and cannot really afford to keep to its contract...
...yesterday's paper. So we're giving you another chance. Go to your Senior Tutor (or Dean if you are a freshman or Cliffie) and obtain ST8 tax exemption forms. Then go to the bookstore. Or you will be paying 3 per cent sales tax on every book you buy. And don't say we didn't warn...
...help restore the popular support that the announcement would cost the Chancellor, the U.S. could ease the terms of the off-set agreements, which require Germany to buy a total of $675 million in military equipment this year to balance U.S. dollar expenses in keeping troops in West Germany. The Germans want to count missile purchases in fulfilling their obligation, and have pointed to their worsening balance of payments in pleading for this change in the agreements. So far they have bought only one half of the necessary equipment, but the U.S. has refused to allow them any modifications...
Soon after buying the Sacramento Union last May, Publisher Jim Copley began to concentrate his acquisitive tal ents on a bigger paper considerably farther to the west. Copley not only wanted to buy control of the 110-year-old Honolulu Advertiser, he also in tended to make it the main member of his newspaper chain; he even bought an apartment in Hawaii. By last week, though, Copley was convinced that Advertiser Publisher Thurston Twigg-Smith, 45, and Editor George Chaplin, 52, who between them owned about 60% of the paper's stock, were not about to sell...
...major downswing in 20 years had dropped shares to their lowest levels, relative to earnings, since 1958. Dozens of giltedged stocks-among them G.M., Du Pont and Allied Chemical-were underpriced. Such a situation was tempting to the mutual funds, which have been waiting for the right moment to buy at bargain rates. Then, too, there was good news: the elections in Viet Nam; the decision by the U.S. to buttress Britain's pound with more credits; the prediction by G.M. that next year's car sales will reach...