Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...establish a uniform permissiveness across the U.S. Each city, county and state can bring actions that publishers or distributors must defend individually, at sometimes prohibitive costs. But in general, what constitutes "redeeming social importance" is endlessly arguable, and even plainly unredeemed "hardcore" pornography is easier than ever to buy, particularly since the Supreme Court ruled that allegedly obscene books or movies cannot be seized by police until they have been so adjudged in the courts...
...foot longer than Ford's entry into the chauffeur field, the Grand Mercedes is twice the car. It ought to be. The price, f.o.b. New York, is $23,500, enough to buy two LTDs with a couple of Volkswagens thrown in. With two rear-facing club chairs in the passenger saloon, "der Grosse" seats seven, sports enough engineering advances and luxury gadgets to make the most jaded automaniac drool...
...next to a pile of toys that he amuses himself with: a soccer game, a Yo-Yo, a gun that shoots pingpong balls. And everywhere there are model train locomotives, which he collects in honor of his origin. He used his earnings of about $2,800 per performance to buy an $80,000 walled-in villa tucked away in the mountains above Monte Carlo, where he spends two or three months out of the year...
...such experts as Prime Minister Wilson, former British Exchequer Chancellor Reginald Maudling, Greece's Central Bank Chief Xenophon Zolotas and Bank of Italy Governor Guido Carli. Wilson's version of the plan would work this way: 1) the IMF would create certificates of credit; 2) countries would buy these certificates with their own currencies, use them to settle foreign debts; 3) the IMF would use the national currencies that it collected to back its certificates. The IMF would also lend its certificates to underdeveloped countries in order to expand their buying power in world markets...
...price that comes to about $12 per square mile. It was the crowning irony of one of the more ironic chapters in Russian history. For Russia did not really want to sell Alaska-any more than the U.S. really wanted to buy...