Word: buying
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...restricted to mortgages. In New York, Pennsylvania and other states that have usury laws, mortgage-rate ceilings are now lower than the rates banks have to pay on the MMCs. As a result, some S and Ls have begun using the cash they have received for MMCs to buy certificates of deposit paying 11% or more...
Last week Genesco Chairman John Hanigan, 67, announced the sale of Bonwit's twelve-story Manhattan building and real estate leases to Developer Donald Trump for $10 million. Allied Stores, a large retail chain, is negotiating to buy Bonwit's twelve branches across the country, which it would operate under the Bonwit Teller name. But at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, where Bonwit's was rouged cheek by powdered jowl with Tiffany and Bergdorf Goodman, there will probably be some sort of highrise...
...plays too on the verities and prejudices of its audience, balming or inflaming them according to purpose. Just so, the slogan lurks as a sort of floating hook in the psyche. Properly tugged, it can impel people to coalesce, to divide, to fight, to sacrifice, to vote, to buy...
...success is too important to new Gov. Edward J. King, who campaigned on a platform of law-and-order politics. If the drinking age must go up, then it should be raised only to age 19. At age 18, high school students are too young to be able to buy liquor, either for themselves or for even younger classmates...
...despised the work, but I was working collectively with my family so we could eventually buy a house and other things," she said yesterday. Most migrant workers live in camps that are "unsanitary an unhealthy. The kids would have sores all over their bodies," she added...