Word: buys
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...Japan trade friction over supercomputers. Says Etsuro Yamada, a spokesman for Fujitsu: "The fact is that Control Data lost in a fight with Cray, but that may not be the way the Americans will look at it." The U.S. has long complained about the Japanese government's failure to buy U.S.-made supercomputers. The two countries signed a 1987 accord in which Tokyo agreed to eliminate discrimination against U.S. supercomputer makers in the purchasing procedures of Japanese government agencies and universities. But since then, Tokyo has failed to buy a single U.S. supercomputer...
...prevent students who want to join a military scholarship program from doing so. But there is no reason why such a program has to be affiliated with any educational institution. Any branch of the armed forces can afford to buy a building in Cambridge, teach courses in military theory and grant stipends to help students pay for a Harvard education. Harvard does not need to be involved at all, and it should...
Poor people and people of color have always been militarized to a greater extent than their elite counterparts. Now members of Congress want to make some financial aid contingent upon national service--again foisting duties upon people because they can't afford to buy their way out of them...
...realities of Big Business is serious, a matter of forsaking fraternity for individual enterprise. "New members join just to get in the trade: there are even Hell's Angels chapters out cooking for themselves. Look at that chapter over there; they cashed in their fraternal defense fund to buy chemicals. Now they're all riding new bikes -- them that don't have limousines...
When is a deal not a deal? Buyout agreements are getting trickier because they now bristle with escape hatches. Last month Donald Trump balked on his $365 million pact to buy Eastern's shuttle when the airline sought bankruptcy protections. Brandishing a clause that allowed him to dicker on the price if shuttle business fell off before his deal closed, Trump pressured Eastern into including four more airliners for the same price. The concession was worth up to $26 million...