Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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London dock workers last week started a collection to buy Prince Philip a polo pony. Newspaper columnists suggested that Queen Elizabeth save on household expenses by reusing tea leaves. Cartoonists depicted the royal family as hocking the crown jewels or renting out some of Buckingham Palace's 600 rooms. Parliament debated a subject that the House almost always discreetly avoids-the state of the Queen's finances...
Reversing a lower court that threw out the suit against Hearst, the justices declared that when a magazine endorses a product "for its own economic gain and for the purpose of encouraging and inducing the public to buy it," the publisher should be liable for "negligent misrepresentation...
...admirals also suspect that they have been victimized by the practice of "buy-in," long familiar to the aircraft and electronics industries. A company "buying in" enters a low bid to get a military contract, then submits enough overrun claims later to turn a handsome profit. The Navy, too, is guilty of a form of buyin. It submits to Congress fairly low requests for funds, then returns for more to pay for overruns...
...This insight can only be supplied by an improved social science program, Deutsch said. The use of computers in the Cambridge Project is a welcome step away from the old social science, he added. "Gone are the days when political scientists could just buy a copy of Aristotle and think deep thoughts about it." he said...
Penniless and stateless at the end of the war, Elmyr returned to Paris for some serious painting. In 1946, an English friend visited his studio and mistook one of his unsigned sketches for a Picasso. Fancying herself a bit of an expert, she offered to buy it. "Well, why not?" said Elmyr...