Word: buying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rumanian lovely at a hotel bar in Bucharest sidled suggestively over to the American tourist. Instead of the usual offer of sexual delights, she cooed a surprising request: "Darling, you buy me a carton of Kents...
...risks. A physician informed a patient that he would require several hundred packs of Kents to undertake a complicated course of treatment. The patient worked hard to obtain the requisite cigarettes. When she turned the payoff over to the doctor, he in turn used the Kents to help buy a hard-to-get passport. He then departed the country, leaving his patient untreated-and smoking...
...back slightly. Already MMCs account for a startling $80 billion in deposits, and some bankers are wondering whether they were such a good idea. Their purpose was to keep banks flush with mortgage money, which dries up when interest rates rise and people begin emptying out savings accounts to buy high-interest bonds. While the MMCs have prevented that from happening, they have also led banks into a tight profit squeeze, since they have had to pay more for their money as T-bill rates climb...
...strip-mined coal and nuclear power is encouraging its customers to switch from dependence on the mammoth power plants to an updated model of the wood-burning stove or to futuristic solar heating systems. It is helping families in one of th Unites States's poorest regions to buy alternative sources of home energy with low-interest loans payable over decades. Doesn't sound like something your local Exxon or Con Ed would do, does...
...T.V.A. experiment also enables middle and low income consumers to buy expensive solar water heating equipment by giving them a loan at an interest rate of 3.37 per cent to be paid back over twenty years. Even without any publicity for the project, 900 people have volunteered to participate, and Freeman imagines a day when all the valley's residents will use solar energy to heat their water. There is a second project cranking up that will test solar space heating systems...