Word: buys
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...days as President Nixon's nemesis, Rather is the very embodiment of what they perceive as the media's liberal bias. When Senator Jesse Helms, the right-wing Republican from North Carolina, launched a campaign in 1985 to take over CBS, he urged supporters with pointed glee to buy up CBS stock and "become Dan Rather's boss." Many TV news traditionalists are no fonder of Rather: he is too high-pitched, too image conscious, too well paid...
...competitors agree. Suddenly hypermarkets, which can cover five football fields, are springing up across the U.S. in places as diverse as New Orleans and Kalispell, Mont. The oversize stores provide the ultimate in one- stop shopping: customers can get a haircut, buy a refrigerator and stock up on paper towels in one trip. Most "malls without walls," as Walton calls them, draw crowds with an old-fashioned lure: everyday discounts. Prices are reduced as much as 40% below the full retail level. Hypermarkets make money even at such thin profit margins because they sell such an enormous volume of goods...
...goes into the Martinique Hotel, once a fashionable establishment on Manhattan's Herald Square, and starts talking with some of the 1,400 children (400 families) crammed in there. Like the girl he calls Angie, who is twelve and already skilled at fending off the men who want to buy her. "I may be little but I have a brain," she tells Kozol. He likes her. "She's alert and funny and . . . I enjoy her skipping moods," he writes. One day he learns that after her mother's welfare check failed to arrive, Angie was caught stealing food from...
...bulk of the N.Y.S.E.'s back-office work. Part of the Big Board's designated order turnaround (DOT) system, which transmits orders from brokerage firms to the floor of the exchange, crashed four times on Oct. 19. The next day, a system that stores standing orders to buy or sell shares at a predetermined price stopped three times. One still unidentified software glitch temporarily misplaced transaction reports involving some 4.3 million shares. Many brokers, uncertain whether the computers were registering their sell orders, just kept selling to make sure...
...bulk of the aid package was intended to buy"non-lethal" supplies to keep the rebels alive asa military force inside Nicaragua. That includedfood and uniforms as well as communications gearand leased aircraft to deliver the material...