Word: buying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take exception to your closing comment: "Since trucks haul just about everything that Americans buy or sell...
...anyone to sign for the pickup of the cash. That key move kept the money at the airport over a weekend, just as the gang had planned. Werner was promised $300,000 for his role. When Gruenewald seemed nervous about keeping his secret, Werner gave him $ 10,000 to buy his silence. Then Werner too began to flash his cash in public. He paid $10,000 for a GM Sportvan. And he paid in bills, a fact that became known...
This time, no one seems to want to lend even rhetorical assistance to Amin. Neither the United Nations nor the Organization of African Unity has condemned the invasion, despite his appeals. Amin may have managed to buy a few weapons from Iraq, but his traditional arms suppliers, Libya and the Soviet Union, apparently have cut off his credit. At least a third of Amin's 21,000-man army is now composed of Nubian mercenaries from southern Sudan, a group he trusts more than his own countrymen, and morale is at an all time...
...hand, warn TIME'S economists, who recommend putting investment money into high-yielding Treasury bills until the recession bites. Even then, the bulls may not let out a full-throated roar. Warns Pechman: "The fact that we are suggesting that late this year may be a time to buy equities does not mean that equity prices will go through the roof." But, says Beryl Sprinkel, "the cheapest assets in this world today are U.S. stocks...
When Vicki Lefever, 29, a pregnant Santa Monica housewife, went to her mailbox last Dec. 12, she found a disturbing notice. It informed her that her building was being converted into a condominium, and that she and her policeman husband could either buy their apartment, a two-bedroom flat renting at $395 a month, for $95,000 within 30 days-or move out. She was so upset that her blood pressure soared to 160 over 100, and she went into labor, giving birth prematurely that night to 6-lb. 3-oz. Eliot. "My doctor says the notice caused the whole...