Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enterprises. Nine U.S.-based divisions now turn out such products as tractors, refrigerators, generators, and aerospace hardware, which together last year accounted for 75% of Studebaker's $200 million in sales, and all its $10.5 million profit. Its stock, rising on rumors that outside investors were trying to buy it out, was up 11 points in three weeks and last week closed at 40¼. The outsiders have been turned down and, with autos phased out, the 114-year-old onetime wagonmaking firm should return at last to a stable position...
...Chile and Denmark flatly prohibit it. Imaginative investors, however, usually can slide around the restrictions. The main reason for their interest is that, despite the recent weakness, the U.S. stock market has had a longer and stronger upswing than any other in the world-and foreign investors want to buy a piece of the expansive U.S. economy...
...where do Harvard students buy these drugs? Almost all local drugs come from New York; locally they are usually obtained from friends who give or sell drugs as a favor, and not for pecuniary benefit. There are, however, occasional student pushers who buy large quantities of drugs on the New York market and bring them up to college to sell at an enormous profit, sometimes enough to pay tuition. But these are the exception and not the rule. Many students buy their drugs from friends at home and bring them up to school, yet almost everyone I interviewed agreed that...
Alliance with France. For now, they plan to save money by buying advanced military aircraft from the U.S., whose huge production lines permit lower pricing. The 50 swing-wing F-111A fighter-bombers that Britain will buy from General Dynamics at $5,950,000 each are at least $1,000,000 cheaper than anything Britain's much smaller industry could build...
...company, and winning a sense of independence. Finally there are the economists who insist that they could exist much more comfortably at a lower cost; in fact, many students are paying for two sets of meals--the ones they don't eat in the House and the ones they buy instead...