Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chip futures market would allow manufacturers to buy or sell contracts for DRAM-chip delivery several months down the line, locking in a guaranteed price. Yet skeptics point out that microchips vary much more widely in quality and type than bushels of corn and that buyers who purchase their chips on the market rather than directly from suppliers will have far less influence over the manufacturing process...
...when he abruptly unloaded his 17.3% stake, or 42 million shares, for $2.07 billion (his profit: $600 million). The sale, which ranked as the largest single trade in Big Board history, was so unwieldy that three investment firms -- Shearson Lehman Hutton, Goldman, Sachs and Salomon Brothers -- teamed up to buy the shares. The bombshell transaction freed Icahn to prowl once more, setting off speculation that he would make another move to take over USX. Icahn owns some 29 million shares of the oil-and-steel concern, or 11.4%, worth about $1 billion. But so far, Icahn refuses...
...Harvard confirms that it is negotiating with the St. Paul's Parish to buy its rectory and parking lot, the largest plot of undeveloped land in Harvard Square...
...City Council votes 7-1 to extend until 1993 the contract of City Manager Robert W. Healy, the city's top administrator. The new contract includes a controversial "buy-out" clause, requiring the city to pay Healy even if the council removes him from his post, and several councillors argue that the move gives the city manager too much power...
...Harvard is reduced to a memory, we have to pick and choose what remains of its meaning. Most Harvard students, when asked where we go to school, reply Boston first, then Cambridge if coaxed, and only under extreme pressure do we say Harvard. Upon graduation, are we going to buy into the legend, sporting the sweatshirt and ring, joining the Harvard club? Or are we going to lead our lives away from school connections and attitudes, continue to say we went to school simply "in Boston?" We are in a position to immerse ourselves in a network of fellow Harvard...