Word: buys
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...sooner or later, if they keep at it, the new gardeners discover what the others have known all along: the satisfactions have little to do with anything they can read, buy or brag about. "A garden is for its owner's pleasure," advised that wise, earthy doyenne of English gardening, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), "and whatever the degree or form of that pleasure, if only it be sincere, it is right and reasonable, and adds to human happiness in one of the purest and best of ways...
...anyone ever really knew was that rock was the real thing, a way for a lot of kids to find a balance, share a feeling, even, sometimes, stay ahead and stay alive. It's not that way anymore. For the millions who saw the movie or buy the records or check out the concert, these songs are no longer reflections of immediate experience. They are bedtime stories...
...hotel was never built, and Congress and the Korean government are investigating another possibility: that the funds amounted to a payoff to Park, who had important political connections in Seoul. Northrop allegedly paid Park, who died of liver cancer in 1985, to arrange for the Korean government to buy the company's proposed F-20 fighter plane. Had Park succeeded, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, he stood to receive $55 million from Northrop. Congress is looking into whether there was a violation of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars payoffs to foreign officials...
...cash instead of the usual Pentagon backing, lost their appeal after the combat-proven F-16s built by General Dynamics became popular with the Israeli air force and European governments. Then two F-20s crashed in 1984 and 1985, and the U.S. Air Force decided not to buy any of the planes, dooming the fighter's future...
Northrop admits paying $6.25 million to Park, who was known as "Pistol" Park because of his fondness for handguns. But the company contends the payment was a legal part of a so-called offset program, which many U.S. firms use to invest in countries that buy their goods. Northrop, claiming it was defrauded, is suing a group of Koreans allegedly involved with Park in the scandal. "We made the investment in good faith," a spokesman says...