Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Take me out to the ball game, take me out to the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and ZZZZZZ...
After more than five years of plummeting prices, inflation has hit the cocaine trade: the Drug Enforcement Administration reports that coke prices in South Florida are on the rise. Three months ago, undercover DEA agents could buy coke wholesale for as little as $13,000 a kilogram. Today they can rarely bargain dealers to lower than $16,000. Some DEA agents believe dealers are trying to recoup losses. Cocaine seizures in Florida and the Caribbean have more than doubled in the past year...
...billion) that won a bidding war with several other potential buyers, including New York City's Citicorp and San Francisco's Wells Fargo. The North Carolina bank will pay at least $210 million for a 20% stake in the bank and will have a five- year option to buy the rest from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which guarantees bank deposits and will put up most of the money for the rescue...
...have occurred at plants where Business Week is printed in Old Saybrook, Conn., and Torrance, Calif. Investigators were looking into reports that Dillon had been meeting at breakfast on Thursday mornings with printers coming off the night shift at the Connecticut plant. Dillon may have used the information to buy stocks on Thursday, then sold them at a profit the following Monday. The broker, who could face fraud charges, reportedly admitted to co-workers that his tips came from Business Week, but claimed he was getting an early copy at a newsstand. Investigators are uncertain whether the other brokers were...
...Cesare, who owns a popular Rome eating place and admits somewhat sheepishly that he can consume more than 2 lbs. of pasta a day: "We're going to wait and see what the other stuff tastes like and, if it's better than ours, I for one will buy it." Buon appetito...