Given the yen remains over-bought, this should bring some sharp movements in both the currency and the share market.
"People have been treating themselves and their children satisfactorily with cough medicines bought over-the-counter for many decades, " said a spokeswoman.
The commission is studying the policy of Norway, where all fish must be landed, and over-quota fish are bought by the state for a modest sum.
The book was published in 2006 and I assumed it would not be lining the shelves of our small, local bookstore (where I try to shop wherever possible) so I did what many parents did and one-clicked my way over and bought it at Amazon.
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Over a 15-year period, Shakespeare bought and stored grain, malt and barley for resale at inflated prices to his neighbours and local tradesmen.
Vikram Pandit took over in 2007 after Citi bought his hedge-fund business, Old Lane Partners, which it quickly closed.
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While Schering-Plough (bought by Merck last year) and Pfizer rushed to get their antihistamines available over-the-counter, Sanofi was benefitting from a smaller amount of generic competition.
When its bonds were worth pennies, Mr. Lampert bought them and took over the money-losing company.
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Analysts also cited continued central-bank buying of gold after news that the Bank of Korea bought 25 metric tons over the past two months, its first purchases since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.
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Originally, when the decision was made to appoint a single damages expert, Donziger had worried that in Ecuador anyone with that much influence over the outcome of a multibillion-dollar case could be bought.
In other words, options traders have bought to open DEO puts over calls at a faster-than-usual clip during the past couple of weeks.
The first acquisition occurred a little over a month before the second, when LinkedIn bought the Pittsburgh-based mSpoke (a technology purchase, says Weiner).
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Or, simply put, options traders have bought to open PENN puts over calls at a quicker-than-usual clip during the past couple of weeks.
Khan moved to the U.S. from Hyderabad, India, in 1989, and over the years, he set up several dry-cleaning businesses and bought into some real-estate investments.
While organic food is likely to remain popular, Minitel believes in the future it will be bought by a core number of consumers opposed to over-production and the use of pesticides.
The entity came about in 2010 when Mahindra bought Reva, a small electric-car company that over a decade sold less than 5, 000 models of its tiny electric car, the REVAi.
Over the past 18 months the firm has bought nine companies including an online self-publishing site, a financial-data firm and one with a technology that newspapers can license for an online-payment system.
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"You know, there's nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the U.K. and tells me the story about how it's the coolest product they've ever brought home, you know, in their lives, " Jobs said at the All Things Digital conference in 2010.
Deluxe (nyse: DLX - news - people ), which has bought back 9.1% of its shares over the past year and NVR (amex: NVR - news - people ), which operates in the construction and marketing of homes as well as in mortgage banking.
To help rebuild its assets, UBP bought over the past two years the Swiss arm of Dutch bank ABN AMRO, and Paris-based hedge fund Nexar Capital Group.
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It bought Birfield, a British rival with better technology, and later extended its control over Uni-Cardan, a German-based maker of transmission gear for carmakers in continental Europe.
For example, the 10-year Treasury bond was over 121 in September and is now trading at 99, meaning anyone who bought the safe haven U.S. debt above par is now watching that investment lose money.
Gallaher bought Russian cigarette maker Liggett-Ducat in 2000, and the acquisition would leapfrog Japan Tobacco over Altria Group 's Philip Morris into the No. 1 spot in the Russian market, with a 34% market share .
Gallaher bought Russian cigarette maker Liggett-Ducat in 2000, and the acquisition would leapfrog Japan Tobacco over Altria Group 's (nyse: MO - news - people ) Philip Morris into the No. 1 spot in the Russian market, with a 34% market share .
Even though we've all gone out and bought HD-DVD players already (not really), Sony is trying to woo consumers over to the Blu-ray camp with a snazzy new line of BRAVIA-brand flat-panel LCD TVs, five of which sport the coveted XBR designation, and five of which offer 1080p resolution for maximum enjoyment of the BDP-S1 that Sony is hoping you'll pick up this summer.
Gurus didn't mind the multiple of 22 times current-year earnings and bought into the company, which grew second-quarter EPS by 27% on a year-over-year basis.
One of the things that I've noticed in the barbers that I've gone to, particularly over the last four or five--you know, I have a couple in different--they all have bought into this, the we give the best wisdom here.
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