Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along Beijing's Xiushui Street, merchants in makeshift metal stands plaintively urge shoppers to buy jade-green grapes, bright red Coca-Cola sportswear and Begonia Flower-brand silk lingerie. A balding trader, waving a fan, hawks Christian Dior-label shirts. They cost 100 yuan ($27) abroad, he confides, but his price is only 25 yuan ($6). A real bargain. The yellow license in his stall identifies him as a ge ti hu (private entrepreneur), who sells his wares on the free market...
...flag-draped body. The scars of the Maoist era are still too fresh for the Chinese to emulate completely the Soviet Union's new view of history. But Deng's new society has found its own way of demythologizing the past. Visitors leaving the monument mob souvenir stands to buy cartons of cigarettes or candy boxes embossed with a golden silhouette of the mausoleum...
...joint venture in Shanghai: "You need the right partner in the right area, and you need to examine the existing infrastructure. But the human factor is the real yardstick for the success of a joint venture. Machinery can be bought and you can find funding, but you cannot buy qualified management...
Program Trading. On Black Monday, the N.Y.S.E. ordered a halt to certain kinds of computer-aided trades in which brokers send huge waves of buy or sell orders through the markets with a few taps on a keyboard. Those emergency restrictions are still in effect, and there is considerable sentiment for making them permanent. But even as program trading was emerging as everybody's favorite scapegoat, evidence was mounting that the practice had played a smaller role in the market's collapse than suspected. According to figures released last week by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, program trading accounted for less...
...stock prices. Dart Group, a retail conglomerate controlled by Washington's Haft family, dropped its $68-a- share bid for the Dayton-Hudson department-store chain when the target company's shares fell to $30. Hong Kong-based Jardine Strategic Holdings called off a $390 million bid to buy a 20% interest in Bear Stearns when shares of the Wall Street firm plummeted from $23 to $12. The crash ended TWA Chairman Carl Icahn's effort to take the airline private by offering to pay $45 apiece for shares that ended up dropping to $14 the day after the crash...