Word: buying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked to assemble some friends for a talk on national issues. They were given the impression that their guest would be Pollster Caddell. Caddell did call on the Fishers to inform them that the President himself would be there in an hour; he handed Bette Fisher $100 to buy refreshments. She rushed to a delicatessen about ten miles away and bought mounds of cold cuts and cole slaw, but Carter and Rosalynn, who accompanied him on both trips, declined to eat anything; they settled for lemonade. Ginny Porterfield had prepared coffee and sweet rolls for the visitor from Washington...
...financial help-partly as a hedge against further inflation. Even with the new graduated payment mortgages that allow lower monthly outlays in the first few years, many people are dangerously overextending themselves. Says Norris Allman, 27, an engineer in New Jersey: "We finally made a decision that either we buy now or we would never be able to afford to buy...
...Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates that in 1970 half the people in the U.S. could have afforded to buy a median-priced new house -then $23,400-by the normal credit rule that they spend no more than 25% of their pretax income on mortgage payments...
Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics and president of Data Resources Inc. (DRI), a prominent economic forecasting firm, announced this weekend that McGraw-Hill Inc. had agreed to buy the company for $103 million...
Executives of other leasing companies were soon rushing to London to buy the new policy. San Francisco-based Itel became the biggest user, taking out 48% of all the computer policies that Lloyd's underwriters issued. The leasing companies owned by Citicorp, Chase Manhattan and Bank of America, among many other big firms, got similiar policies. In all, the 57 Lloyd's underwriting syndicates and 17 individual insurance companies that were involved in the deal wrote more than 14,000 policies covering potential claims of more than $ 1 billion...