Word: buys
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...continue to educate Americans as though "Made in America" labels were the only ones in the products they buy, as though English was the primary language of the billion-plus people in the world, would be a huge disservice to the national interest...
...Cheeseburger Special is about the only other remnant of unabashedly American food left in the Square, Chicago Frank's specializes in Vienna Beef wieners, prepared the Chicago way, with mustard, ketchup, relish, onions, jalapenos and tomato wedges, in a soft, gushy, poppy seed-coated Coney roll. You can also buy a double dog, with two franks in a single roll. Variations include chili dogs, cheese dogs and corn dogs. Putting aside visions of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, we gave the establishment...
Kuwait made its options clear when, in the wake of the Senate vote, it promptly agreed to buy 245 armored personnel carriers from the Soviet Union. A host of other nations, including France, China, Brazil and Argentina, are eagerly competing to meet the oil-rich Persian Gulf Arabs' desire to shore up defenses against their fundamentalist neighbor Iran...
...market, children learn, is where one goes to buy a fat pig. Grownups call it pork belly, but rarely come home with the bacon. Instead, they hold a slip of computer-generated paper that represents a bet on the future price of the commodity. Not having to handle the meat makes it much easier for traders. They have time to think up creative ways of profitably shuffling their paper ^ or, as the case is today, manipulating numbers on a computer. The game can now be as bewildering as three-dimensional chess played internationally at the speed of light...
Just how straight is the system? Less than brokers would have us believe, according to Mayer. Insider-trading indictments make headlines, but outside investors are also disadvantaged by a structural convenience that benefits the professionals: brokerage houses buy and sell for their own accounts as well as those of their customers. This can be a conflict of interest, especially during volatile periods. Mayer corroborates the Brady commission report on last October's crash, which suggested that many Wall Street firms unloaded their own falling stocks before executing customers' sell orders...