Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Zucker. But under questioning from Senate Chief Counsel Arthur Liman, the businessman admitted, "Eventually, I would have found it impossible for him not to know." Congressional investigators have already uncovered evidence that North used $2,000 worth of traveler's checks obtained from Contra Leader Adolfo Calero to buy groceries, snow tires and gasoline...
...Year Look Enterprises of Durham, N.C. The company is the brainchild of Bob Levitan, 26, who made a video chronicle of the 1981-82 school year at Duke University while a student there. Though the tape was just a student project, dozens of people later asked if they could buy copies. Seeing a potential market, Levitan produced a 40-minute video yearbook the following year and sold 100 copies at $45 each. His company now has a roster of 20 clients, including such universities as Princeton, Brown and Michigan. The tapes are fast-paced, smoothly edited overviews of the school...
...fastest-selling pharmaceuticals in border towns now is Ribavirin, a drug developed in the U.S. to treat AIDS but not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Despite official doubts about Ribavirin's efficacy, thousands of Americans are crossing the border to buy it; smuggling rings have been formed to transport large quantities to the U.S. for resale. "I have had people come in saying they will buy all I can get," says a pharmacist in Ciudad Juarez...
...OPENING MAY 28, 1987. Indeed, so persistent was the hoopla surrounding the strange case of Mathias Rust that Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov jokingly suggested that the "Cessna company organized all of this mess for advertising purposes." Not likely. As they say on Madison Avenue, no one can buy that kind of publicity...
...profit institution, the University does not have to show a profit on each purchase," says Sullivan, who is the executive director of the Cambridge Historical Commmission. "The fact that Harvard could buy a piece of property is much more important to them than the actual price...