Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...denying that California Art Collector Simon was interested. Last summer Los Angeles County Museum Director Richard F. Brown, who has counseled Simon in many of his purchases, went to Liechtenstein to examine the prince's Leonardo in the sunlight of the palace courtyard. Simon is no collector to buy a pig in a poke. Before bidding $2,234,400 for Rembrandt's Titus last March, he had the painting gone over by experts; in fact, earlier, when Titus was still privately owned, he refused to buy it because his advisers were not permitted to examine it thoroughly...
...population grows and shifts, its wants speed ahead. Americans have an insatiable craving for improved goods and services, more eagerly embrace new products than any other people. Their willingness to buy almost anything that will amuse, uplift, beautify or offer convenience is demonstrated by the marketplace successes of such things as textured stockings, the electric carving knife, skate boards, diet cola, shoe-shining machines and speed-reading courses. Getting backers for a sound idea is no real problem; credit is cheaper (average interest rate: 5%) and bankers more eager to lend in the U.S. than in any other major nation...
...president of Skyline Homes, the industry's biggest producer, he is worth just over $5,000,000. Skyline's sales in the past four years have jumped 500% to $59 million, and Decio expects to race along with the fast expansion of the two population groups that buy the most mobile homes: young marrieds and retired oldsters...
...needs--refilling the ice buckets, opening a new box of candy, offering to order dinner for him. Unidentified girls sat on couches and beds and said nothing; they were never introduced. Occasionally one of the Boys would deferentially light a girl's cigarette or send her out to buy dinner. The policeman on duty showed up about every 15 minutes with an autograph seeker. The first time, Dennis's mother quietly reminded him, "Stand up, Denny," and he walked forward to shake hands with a very drunk English teacher attending a convention in the hotel. She wanted his autograph...
...doesn't worry about not having a high school diploma ("I can buy one if I need one"), but he is sheepish about the way he treated teachers after the Boys signed their first contract. "I deliberately loitered in the school parking lot, waiting for my old guid...