Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flannel slacks, the lady, Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, wife of the U.S. ambassador, and a priestess of high fashion in Washington when her husband was the State Department's Chief of Protocol, sheepishly stepped aside and let Mrs. Donovan herself-clad in the regulation skirt-go in to buy the golf balls they needed for that afternoon's game with the general and the ambassador...
...urged to step aside quietly by high-ranking loyalist colleagues, Garcia-Godoy and U.S. Special Delegate Ellsworth Bunker, the able diplomat who earned high praise from President Johnson last week for his efforts throughout the crisis. At one point, Wessin y Wessin reported that the CIA had offered to buy his modest $18,000 house for $50,000. The U.S. countered that the $50,000 was his own idea. Through it all, Wessin y Wessin refused to budge...
...snowshoes went for $11, the lacrosse equipment for $3, the Jackson Pollock for $12,000, and the Franz Kline for $5,000. In all, it was a fairly good auction out at the Slezak place in Larchmont, N.Y., until the men who arranged to buy the Pollock and the Kline discovered that the paintings would have made better snowshoes. Last week a federal grand jury indicted Connecticut Art Dealer Richard A. Rainsford and a Chicago accomplice on 26 charges of fraud for inventing elaborate pedigrees for the forged paintings, then sneaking them in to be sold with some of Walter...
...already sells $154 million worth of brakes, carburetors, pumps and power steering systems. By acquiring Besly-Welles, it will also be able to start selling the drills, grinders and metal-cutting tools used in making auto parts. Even now it is going a logical step further and negotiating to buy some of the smaller manufacturers that supply spare parts to Detroit...
Devaluation: reducing the value of a nation's currency by making each of its units of money worth less in gold. This enables foreigners to buy that country's goods for less while forcing nationals to pay more for foreign goods-one way of reducing a payments deficit...