Word: buying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gradually the French are learning to make their duty a little more bearable. They send out wine tasters to sample the local vintages and buy the best bottles they can find for their mess. They also have what is known as the "Air France raiding party," a group that drives up to Beirut daily to pick up delicacies, newspapers and mail from Paris...
...pounder who played end for Georgia more than four decades ago. Since their marriage in 1972, Patrice and Louis Wolfson-the owners of Affirmed-have been one of the most successful racing couples in the sport. Their Harbor View stable is now the leading money winner. They did not buy Affirmed; they bred him through three generations, and Wolfson has turned down an offer of $8 million for the nation's prize Thoroughbred. Says he: "When you breed and race a horse like this, you wouldn't take $15 million or $20 million...
...snickers stopped in 1943, when Jacobs claimed an unimpressive colt named Stymie for $1,500 and turned him into one of the most spectacular horses of all time. Stymie won more than $900,000 in purses, allowing Jacobs and Bieber to buy a 283-acre breeding farm in Maryland. They called it Stymie Manor. Jacobs, meanwhile, had married Ethel Dushock, daughter of a well-to-do manufacturer from Yonkers, and raised a family of two boys and a girl...
...respected construction firm, and in half a dozen years had raised its net worth from $8 million to $132 million. He also used the firm to absorb companies that made everything from ships (the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk) to movies (The Babe Ruth Story). He failed in efforts to buy the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Washington Senators and the Baltimore Colts...
...investment rush has been building for years, and now it is gaining momentum. One factor is the dollar's slump, which has enabled holders of West Germany's mark, Switzerland's franc, Japan's yen and other strong currencies to buy a piece of the U.S. at bargain prices. More important, in the new economic climate of high-energy prices, sluggish international growth and protectionist trade sentiments, the U.S. appears to be the country best suited to ride out the tempest. It also seems the nation least vulnerable to the terrorism that is ravaging Italy...