Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credit is fine," says Carol Keyes, a member of the National Coalition for Campus Child Care. "But the proposed tax credit only provides families with $19 per week, and that doesn't buy anything," she adds...
...buy the oftmetaphorized breakfast treats instead...
Fairness also has little to do with the system of guandao, or official profiteering, that permeates Chinese society. On a small scale, leaders at all levels routinely use their positions to obtain free restaurant meals or theater tickets. In a grander manner, officials buy scarce raw materials such as coal and timber at low, subsidized prices and sell them on the open market for handsome profits...
Troubles for Democratic whip Tony Coelho mounted with stories of his profiting from favoritism by borrowing money to buy a $100,000 junk bond from Drexel Burnham Lambert -- a deal that ultimately netted him $6,882. Avenging Republicans hovered over fax machines, gathering new items from the stories on Coelho in California's crusading Fresno...
...last incident began when my brother and I got off the Green Line trolley car at the unnamed stop in front of the Holiday Inn on Beacon St. I remember that it was 10:45 p.m., because when I told Michael that I was going to buy the New York Times then, the smart-aleck said, "Yeah...