Word: buying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courses and advanced placement tests." In Rae Anne's first psychology class, the teacher asked if anyone wanted to talk about the strike. One boy blurted, "I feel screwed." The problem of making up the lost work calls for the sort of student-teacher cooperation that money cannot buy and contracts cannot ratify...
...military is rewarded for its devotion. Officers' pay ranges from $2,000 a month for lieutenants to a high of $70,000 a year for generals. In addition, officers receive modern housing with servants, vacation quarters, and PX privileges that enable them to buy hard-to-find luxury items without paying normally high taxes on them. Privates on long-term enlistments receive $400 a month and sergeants $1,000; conscripts, who constitute only 20% of the force, get the equivalent of a dollar a day. (Iran's civilian per capita income: $2,200 a year.) Barracks are modern...
...which it will jeopardize if it plays games with the dollar. Anyway, the Saudis are stuck with the buck; by now they could get out of dollars only at ruinous cost to themselves. There just are not enough marks, yen or Swiss francs available for them to buy with their dollars. Long before they converted any large portion, their sales would have driven the value of their remaining dollars down so much as to make their own reserves worth much less...
Saudis did buy a bigger chunk of an American firm, they would have to report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Since they have not, no one knows what companies they have bought into...
...have anything," she replied, "You need to buy a new pail...