That, or the corporation just buys up the most popular craft breweries.
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Five hundred Argentine pesos, or $30, buys up to 20 doses of paco.
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It buys up or bankrupts potential competitors to protect its monopoly, killing innovation and choice.
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He still continues to buy Adidas sweatpants at Costco, but now buys up a size.
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The Polish company buys up to 10.2 bcm of gas annually from the Russian firm.
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Private equity buys up assets (everything from foreclosed homes to ambulance companies) at a bargain.
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Home Depot: Up to 30% off with appliance special buys; up to 20% off select lighting.
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It just buys up the people who are already making the things it wants to sell.
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There's a different charity, called R.I.P. Medical Debt, that buys up and pays off people's medical debts.
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This also could include whatever random company buys up its assets in the event of a bankruptcy.
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It buys up as many items as it can and uses an X-ray fluorescence analyzer to check for cadmium.
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Netflix usually buys up exclusive worldwide rights to the shows it makes and acquires, paying a mark-up over production costs.
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Big Tech buys up the best AI, quantum, robotics, driverless car tech, and other talent for the industries of the future.
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The troll in the show explains that he buys up vague patents at auction and "prints money" suing startups for settlements.
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It works like this: An investor quietly buys up a significant amount of a targeted company's stock and threatens a takeover attempt.
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The chain typically only buys up to one-third of birds in a flock because the others do not meet its specifications.
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Second-year students design dresses for him, and each year he buys up to 14 outfits before wearing them to high-profile events.
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She's a Slovakian designer who goes home every year and buys up vintage handwoven hemp textiles, then cuts and sews them into bags.
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The US can't get enough of Scotch whisky, while China buys up millions of pounds worth of the country's meat and seafood every year.
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Why it matters: Digital First Media doesn't have a stellar reputation for maintaining the cultures and values of struggling local news companies it buys up.
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When a company buys up shorter-term securities, it often reflects an expectation for higher-yielding debt, which it can purchase after existing investments mature.
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As the New Yorker reports, the Enquirer serves another function for Trump: It buys up stories that are unfavorable to the president and squashes them.
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It buys up, signs and keeps original paper tickets there, which it also pays to insure, in case anything goes wrong at its holding facility.
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Spun out of Athena in 2018, Ahtora buys up assets that may be non-core to their owners in order to manage them more efficiently.
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In deals that rarely make the business pages, Essilor buys up Belgian optical laboratories, Chinese resin manufacturers, Israeli instrument makers and British e-commerce websites.
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Haden buys up whips like this every year -- so ya gotta figure he's got c-armys in Pittsburgh and other cities where he's set up.
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The lawmaker also cites Facebook's "predatory acquisition strategy" in which it buys up potential competitors before they can pose a threat, stifling innovation in the process.
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It also asks that federal funds go toward America's steel and iron projects, and that the federal government buys up more US-made products, CNN reports.
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Like, Google buys up every worthy AI company, if not Facebook, and Amazon does, and so the whole culture doesn't ... Someone's not gonna displace them, essentially.
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Unfortunately, there is a demanding illegal pet trade in the Arab Peninsula, which buys up to 300 cheetah cubs a year, according to the Cheetah Conservation Fund.
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The company now buys up to 60 tanker trucks of milk a day from local farmers — 8,13 gallons of milk per truck — to keep its operation going.
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The government isn't preparing for an apocalypse; when times are tough, the government buys up American dairy products to reduce supply, increase the price, and stabilize the market.
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Martin and Emory's Josh McCrain, in a more recent paper, used the fact that Sinclair sequentially buys up affiliates to measure the impact of its ownership on local programming.
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In some cases, Vahdam buys up a majority, or all, of an estate's premium tea products but there are other goods sold on to other merchants or at auction.
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Another ad targeting giant, Facebook, also buys up large amounts of third party data relating to users' offline lives in a bid to expand its ability to profile people.
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Mineral-dependent Mongolia is also one of the countries worst affected by slowing growth in China, which buys up nearly all of its northern neighbor's copper, gold and coal.
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HNA Group says that Wall Street's biggest banks are knocking at the door to do business with it as the huge Chinese conglomerate buys up businesses around the globe.
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Meanwhile, Alphabet's cash reserves have risen by $20 billion over the same period, despite heavy investment in real estate as the company buys up space for offices and data centers.
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Imagine a company — call it Chiquita Banana — that has subsidiaries in Latin American countries, buys up bananas from banana farmers, and then sells them to the US branch for resale.
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Home Depot: Save up to 30% off select storage solutions; up to 30% off with appliance special buys; up to 40% off White Sale; up to 60% off Progress lighting fixtures.
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Versum said its shareholder plan gives all shareholders the right to purchase stock at a reduced price, if a potential bidder buys up 12.5 percent or more of Versum's common stock.
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But then I learned about Hungry Harvest, a company that buys up excess or "ugly" produce from growers and wholesalers around the country and sells it to consumers for less than supermarket price.
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Product-hoarding will not protect you from the coronavirusIf one person goes to the store and buys up all the hand sanitizer, they aren't protecting themselves as much as they think they are.
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As a graduate student, Shapland was an intern at the Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas repository that buys up the ephemera of seemingly every writer: Gabriel García Márquez, Don DeLillo, Rachel Cusk.
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DAZN bills itself as the Netflix of sports and Rushton said the two-year-old business would spend more than $1 billion in capital this year as it buys up rights to various sports worldwide.
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So when a hospital buys up a formerly private practice, it can and does charge the third party insurance or Medicare payer more for essentially the same service that was less expensive the day before.
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But a little-known private equity investor, Royalty Pharma, has built an unusual investment portfolio valued at $15 billion — it buys up the rights to royalties on future drug sales — while largely avoiding public controversy.
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The New York-based group buys up medical debt from collection agencies and hospitals for pennies on the dollar, identifying accounts that belong to cash-strapped patients all over the country and absolving their debts.
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Authorities first considered banning the notorious hordes of bikes in the capital last year over fears its leafy streets would soon be overrun as the population swells and the middle class buys up cars in record numbers.
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In the note from the ratings agency, S&P said that it was particularly concerned about SoftBank's share repurchase program, which would see cash liquidity decrease as it buys up shares from investors on the public markets.
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Organizations such as the HealthWell Foundation help people who are unable to pay medical expenses, while RIP Medical Debt, founded by two former debt collections executives, buys up bundles of medical debt, effectively canceling it for recipients.
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Background: MNG Enterprises, known commonly as Digital First Media, is owned mostly by a New York-based hedge fund called Alden Global Capital, which often buys up distressed newspapers and restructures them to slash costs and drive profits.
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Land prices in Lamu County where he built his home are soaring as the government buys up thousands of acres for a new road, port, coal plant, airport and railway line — and Jefua doesn't have a title deed.
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In June, a senior North Korean defector named Ri Jong Ho told Japan's Kyodo News agency that the Hermit Kingdom secretly buys up to 300,000 tons of oil products from Russia every year, procured by brokers based in Singapore.
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HANOI (Reuters) - World famous for its endless swarms of motorcycles, Vietnam is considering banning bikes in the capital over fears its leafy streets will become overrun as the population swells and its middle class buys up cars in record numbers.
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On Tuesday, the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security will host a hearing on the BOTS Act, which is meant to crack down on software that buys up blocks of tickets for resale at a higher price.
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If Schnatter's group ever buys up enough ownership to move beyond the 30 percent they currently have, every other stakeholder will have the right to buy up stock at half the normal price, effectively sealing off any strong-arming from the former Papa John.
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His research is focused on companies that supply parts to Apple, and he believes companies in the LED supply chain are attractive options for hardware investors, especially if supply gets "tight" in 2020 as Apple buys up components for a mini LED iPad and MacBook.
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While Disney+ shows off clips of "The Mandalorian," Apple TV+ gives a sneak peek of Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon's "The Morning Show" and HBO Max buys up familiar hits like "Friends" and "The Big Bang Theory," Quibi has kept much of its programming close to the vest.
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The department doles out billions of dollars in farm subsidies, underwrites insurance on millions of acres of crops, researches and helps control diseases that threaten plants and animals and buys up massive quantities of food when farmers produce too much — a surplus that supplies food banks and schools nationwide.
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The TL;DR version goes like this: LA musician buys up a ton of followers, views, and likes on social media, stages "live" footage, conjures up phantom ticket sales to fool promoters, gives himself a nonexistent "award" from a ghost website, creates a bevy of fake labels and management companies to tie it all together.
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The Fed enforces this target both through expectations (it's powerful enough that just saying "we're lowering rates" causes banks and other actors to follow suit) and through "open market operations," in which it buys up Treasury bonds with money it creates in a bid to make those bonds' interest rates fall to its target range.
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Right now, the US government's strategy when the economy stops growing is to use a combination of monetary stimulus (in which the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates or buys up billions of dollars of long-term bonds) and fiscal stimulus (as in the 213.3 stimulus package, which blended a boost in spending with temporary tax cuts).
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HELOC: NoEquity sharing/ reverse mortgage/ refinance: YesRent-to-own/lease back: NoLast funding round: $12M Series A (5/23/18)Total disclosed equity funding: $12MSelect investors: General Catalyst, American Family VenturesHometap buys up to 20% of the equity in a home for cash, sharing in any gains or losses in the home's value for 10 years.
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The event received 194,000 buys, up from last year's Capitol Punishment pay-per-view of 170,000.
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Taylor Woodrow buys up Bryant In 2007, Taylor Woodrow merged with George Wimpey to form Taylor Wimpey.
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The event was generally well received by critics. The pay-per-view drew 244,000 buys, up from the 235,000 that the previous year's event received.
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The fourth saw Christian win the vacant World Heavyweight Championship against Alberto Del Rio. The event received 209,000 pay-per-view buys, up from last year's event of 182,000 buys.
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Jack does so, putting Christian's shoes on Locke's feet in the process. He also leaves the suicide note in Locke's pocket. At the airport, Jack, Kate, Sun, and Hurley all board Flight 316. Hurley buys up all the remaining seats on the plane, in order to spare the lives of potential passengers.
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The pay-per-view received universally positive reviews, with the main event and two world championship matches drawing high praise from critics and fans. The event received 263,000 buys, up 25.8% from the 209,000 buys for the previous year's event, whereas the next Extreme Rules event in 2013 received 231,000 buys, a drop of 12.1%.
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A rich Hungarian baron discovers that there are large oil deposits underneath properties owned by the villagers. He buys up all the property except those owned by Jewish families, who refuse to sell. In order to circumvent their refusal, he has the men charged with the murder of a woman, who had recently committed suicide.
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He gets into a poker game with Mossiter and others. After playing for a day and a half, he owes $210,000. Mossiter buys up all of his IOUs and gives him a deadline to come up with the money. Murray shows up at Mossiter's hotel room and declares he is not going to pay.
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Rawlins buys up Johnny's outstanding debts and intends to take over. In an act of desperation, Johnny uses nitroglycerine to blast open an oil well, resulting in a gusher. An explosion ends up knocking Rawlins unconscious and pinning Johnny beneath the wreckage, but Nan, having fallen in love with Johnny, comes to his rescue.
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Jonas buys up all the company stock including some held by Nevada Smith, a former western gunslinger. Once a wanted man named Max Sand, Nevada reformed and changed his name. In his new identity, Nevada had practically raised Jonas in the absence of his father. However, Jonas always investigates his associates and has uncovered the truth about Nevada's past.
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In the short term, Lowell raised funds and initiated construction projects that would permit the College to house all its freshmen together. The first Freshman Halls opened in 1914. In 1920, Harvard purchased the private dormitories on Mt. Auburn Street "so that the student body may enjoy what was the privilege of the few."Morison, 445; New York Times: "Harvard Buys Up the 'Gold Coast'," Feb.
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He discovers that contrary to what Manning believes, it is actually potentially very profitable. He convinces Nancy to fund the project, and he buys up all the outstanding shares in the mine, gaining total control. By the time Manning understands what is going on, he is shut out of the mine, which turns into a moneymaker. Dorsey is forgiven by Nancy, and the two reconcile.
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In the meantime Johnny is distracted from his bride to be Toni Rousseau by the visit of a spoiled rich city girl Janet Hilton whose father P.T. Hilton buys up land in the bayous and posts the areas for no hunting or fishing that has a devastating effect on the local culture. Local hot head and Johnny's rival Mike Kalavich knocks down the Hilton's signs and goes poaching on their land.
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In the Elimination Chamber match main event to decide the #1 contender for the World Heavyweight Championship, Jack Swagger defeated Chris Jericho, Randy Orton, Daniel Bryan, Kane and Mark Henry. Also on the show, Kaitlyn retained the WWE Divas Championship against Tamina Snuka, and The Rock retained the WWE Championship against CM Punk. The event received 213,000 pay-per-view buys, up from 178,000 buys the previous year's event received.
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Paul invites Malone to stay in the spare room. Malone and Paul become friends as they discuss their respective military service in the Vietnam War. Jo snoops through Malone's possessions, finding a handgun. Malone helps Paul with his repair work and sizes up the town, which is under the thumb of Charles Delaney, who buys up all the property he can and forces people to sell if they first refuse.
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Türalihus in Valendas (GR): Fassade in 2007 und 2012. Stüssihofstatt in Unterschächen (UR) The Vacations in a Listed Building Foundation (, ) established in 2005 by the Swiss Heritage Society (SHS) buys up abandoned buildings, restores them cautiously and afterwards rents them out as holiday homes.Vacationing in a Listed Building in Art Aurea, 02/2014, p.100 Vacationing in a Listed Building is a nonprofit organization and disposes the ZEWO-Seal of quality.
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Admiration gives way to passion and Ingomar becomes her champion. Then there is a mutiny among the barbarians and they abduct Parthenia. Ingomar rescuers her, forsakes his tribe and escorts Parthenia home where Polydor, an old suitor, starts trouble. He buys up the debt of her father and, because her father can’t pay his debts, demands Parthenia and her father to be slaves. Ingomar marvels at such “civilised” conduct and wants to kill Polydor.
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The Falkirk and Glasgow divisions merged in 1959, and the company was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1965. In 1972, A.G. Barr acquired the Tizer brand. In 2001 the company acquired Findlays Mineral Water which is sourced in the Lammermuir Hills.A.G. Barr buys up Findlays The Scotsman, 27 December 2002 In 2002 Roger White joined A.G. Barr as managing director, and in 2004 became the first chief executive from outside the Barr family.
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The key aim of the campaign is debt cancellation and the alleviation of poverty. Educational and campaign materials have been produced on the legitimacy of debt, power and corruption of both lenders and borrowers. In November 2011 article by The Guardian, Jubilee Debt Campaign was mentioned. It has fought a long battle against vulture funds, where a company buys up debts or securities in a distressed environment, and then sues for the full amount 'owing'.
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The predominant match on the Raw brand was Randy Orton versus John Cena for the WWE Championship, which Cena won after Orton disqualified himself. The featured match on the undercard was an Elimination Chamber match to determine the number one contender to the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XXIV, which was won by The Undertaker. Presented by THQ's Frontlines: Fuel of War, the event had 329,000 buys, up on the No Way Out 2007 figure of 218,000 buys.
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After learning what has happened, Bai-niang guilts Xian and takes the talisman and burns it. The talisman's power reverses and paralyzes the monk. The next day, the villagers go to the Xian's shop and buys up their medicine to pay off Wang. While the shop is busy, Bai-niang confronts the monk, and after a show of magic powers, Bai-niang traps the monk on top of a temple steeple, admonishing and belittling his magical power.
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Millionaire hotel mogul Ray Hunter (Dean Martin) flies to Rome to buy another property, the Regent. He is picked up at the airport by lovely Maria Martelli (Eva Bartok), who works for the hotel's owner, the Countess Alzani. Ray is reproached by the Countess for the impersonal way he buys up hotels this way, piling up "ten thousand bedrooms" and replacing employees without a second thought. He sincerely promises not to do so with the staff of the Regent.
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Other matches featured on the show were John Morrison defending the WWE Intercontinental Championship against Dolph Ziggler, Mickie James versus Alicia Fox for the WWE Divas Championship, Unified WWE Tag Team Champions Chris Jericho and Big Show versus Batista and Rey Mysterio, Drew McIntyre facing R-Truth, and a Triple Threat match for the WWE United States Championship among Kofi Kingston, The Miz, and Jack Swagger. The pay-per-view drew 283,000 buys, up from the 261,000 buys No Mercy 2008 received.
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The primary match on the ECW brand was John Morrison versus CM Punk for the ECW Championship, which Morrison won by pinfall after hitting Punk with both of his knees. The featured matches on the undercard included Montel Vontavious Porter versus Matt Hardy for the WWE United States Championship and Randy Orton versus Dusty Rhodes in a Texas Bullrope match. This was Dusty Rhodes' final match. The event had 229,000 buys, up slightly on the 2006 figure of 227,000 buys.
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Cappy is so impressed, he offers Bill a promotion to manager of his Shanghai office. When Bill insists on marrying Margaret immediately so she can accompany him, Cappy does his best to stop him. He buys up all the staterooms in the ship Bill is to take, but Bill and Margaret get married and manage to sneak aboard the ship anyway. Then Cappy receives word that his men have gone on strike, and they trust and will only negotiate with Bill.
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Billy, posing as the representative of the millionaire Keene, buys up practically all the property in town, including the bank, newspaper, and the factory. Tom, poorly dressed, is coldly received by all save Mary, who even offers her savings to back him in a new venture. Then Billy announces that Keene will be arriving, and the people of the town turn out to welcome him. They are very surprised when the "Keene" turns out to be the despised Tom Redding.
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Jonathan is dismayed to discover that his neglected family shipping firm is in dire trouble, and that he will not be receiving his usual check, leaving him broke. Valentine decides to use this news to ignite his ambition. She buys up controlling interest in the company and moves into his home as the new tenant. When he discovers the identity of the new owner, he wrongly assumes she went out with him solely to learn what she could about the company.
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Royal Rumble received positive reviews, most notably from Arda Ocal and Jim Korderas of Right After Wrestling on SIRIUS Radio 98, who called it one of the best Royal Rumble matches in recent memory. SLAM! Wrestling writers Dale Plummer and Nick Tylwalk shared similar compliments to the event, praising the short, though crowd-pleasing appearances of Kevin Nash and Booker T. Overall, they also awarded the event a score of 8.5/10. The event received 476,000 buys, up from the previous year's 465,000.
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The world's most expensive private islands, The Daily Telegraph It has century-old buildings and tennis courts. The island features in the opening of the famous poem "Skunk Hour" by Robert Lowell: "Nautilus Island's hermit / heiress still lives through winter in her Spartan cottage; / her sheep still graze above the sea. / ... Thirsting for the hierarchic privacy / of Queen Victoria's century, / she buys up all / the eyesores facing her shore, / and lets them fall."Robert Lowell, Collected Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), p. 191.
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The war in Iraq caused panic, particularly among small-scale Sri Lankan tea growers (representing 69% of production), who demanded that the government bail them out. Iraq buys up to 15% of Sri Lanka's tea, and a third of this would enter the country illegally on small boats from Dubai as well as into neighbouring countries such as Iran. Exporters called for the government to assist them with concessionary bank loans and some tea factory owners in Sri Lanka demanded a moratorium on electricity bill payments.
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André resurfaces in September 2015 worried about Stefano's declining health after a heart attack and it is revealed that he is Stefano's biological son and not his nephew. André buys up Aiden Jennings (Daniel Cosgrove)'s debt in order to keep him in line with Stefano's schemes. Meanwhile, André clashes with Stefano's youngest son Chad (Billy Flynn) who is being framed for murder. André publicly announces himself at the wake of Will Horton (Guy Wilson) in October 2015 where his apology for his past misdeeds falls on deaf ears.
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In 1915 Peter McCullough witnesses his father stir up anti-Mexican sentiment to murder the Garcias, a wealthy family friendly with the McCulloughs who have lived on the land since before America was a country. The resulting slaughter leads to multi-day riots where the remaining Latino families in the surrounding area are murdered or forced to flee. Eli buys up the Garcia land afterwards. Peter is haunted by his actions and becomes estranged from his wife, who sees nothing wrong with the incidents, and his sons who participated in the slaughter.
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The murderer is quickly revealed. That same evening, the insecure Gogol, brought to tears and impotent rage by the harsh criticism of his first work, Hans Küchelgarten, buys up all the copies of the book and burns them. The next morning Gogol is visited by Guro, who warmly supports him and advises him not to lose heart after his first failed attempt at writing. Guro also expresses his gratitude for Gogol's cooperation, adding that he is going to investigate the mysterious murders of girls in the Poltava province near the small village of Dikanka.
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This is the only WrestleMania ever where no championships changed hands; three championships were defended at the event and all three were retained. Tickets for the event commenced sale to the public on November 13, 2010. According to WWE's second-quarter earnings report, WrestleMania XXVII generated 1,059,000 PPV buys, up roughly 30% domestically and 15% internationally from the previous year. The event grossed US$6.6 million in revenue with 71,617 in attendance, making it the third highest grossing event in WWE behind WrestleMania XXV and the next years event WrestleMania XXVIII.
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Pooter learns that Murray Posh has settled £10,000 on both Daisy and "Lillie Girl". Pooter is summoned to meet Hardfur Huttle, who offers Perkupps a new client to replace Mr Crowbillion. Perkupp is so grateful to Pooter for this introduction that he buys up the freehold of "The Laurels" and presents the deeds to Pooter. As the couple celebrate, a letter arrives from Lupin announcing his engagement to "Lillie Girl": "We shall be married in August, and among our guests we hope to see your old friends Gowing and Cummings".
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It traded as Arriva Cymru until February 2002, when it merged with Arriva North West to form Arriva North West & Wales.Arriva North West - History Arriva In August 2008 Arriva purchased routes 9 and 9A with seven buses from KMP.Arriva buys up local service offering cheaper fares; 'Outrage' will be taken to Office of Fair Trading Western Mail 1 July 2008Completed acquisition by Arriva plc of certain assets of KMP (Llanberis) Ltd Office of Fair Trading 18 November 2008 In January 2009, Arriva North West & Wales was split, with the Welsh operations being managed by a new management team based at Llandudno Junction depot.
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In the event a player's last smaller-denomination chips are removed from play as part of the chip race, he automatically gets one chip of the lowest value still in play. To make it easier to manage the chip race, it is advised that one player at the table (normally the player who currently holds most of the chips that are about to be eliminated) buys up all the smaller chips from the other player's stacks and exchanges them with chips of equal value in higher denomination. Having all the chips in one stack makes it easier to count up and exchange.
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They start seeing each other again and she divorces her husband after giving birth to Paul's child, a daughter whom they name Daisy after Paul's mother. However, Emma has never forgiven the Fairley family for the way in which she and her own family were treated by them. Now rich and powerful, she buys up all of the Fairley's holdings, including Fairley Hall, which she intends to have demolished and the grounds used as a public park. In February 1939, seeing a new war on the horizon, Paul goes to Australia to convince his wife to give him a divorce so that he can marry Emma.
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In the play, Breakages is "the biggest industrial corporation in the country [Britain]". In Act I Lysistrata, the "Powermistress General" in charge of energy supply, describes how Breakages buys up and suppresses any new invention that threatens its interests, causing energy to cost "twice as much as it should". She shows how the company influences the working of government: "if I attempt to fight them I shall be hounded out of public life". In Act II King Magnus threatens to abdicate in favour of his son Robert, in whose opinion "the country ... is really governed by Breakages, Limited", and to enter politics himself and oppose Breakages.
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No Way Out (also known as No Escape in Germany, since No Way Out was used as the substitute title for the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view over concerns regarding The Holocaust imagery of the title) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the WWE promotion, which took place on June 17, 2012 at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The show was the twelfth and final No Way Out event and the first one since 2009. Nine matches were on the card. The event received 194,000 buys, up from last year's Capitol Punishment pay-per-view of 170,000, but down on the No Way Out 2009 figure of 272,000 buys.
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The Cat Who Came to Breakfast (1994) is the sixteenth mystery novel by Lilian Jackson Braun, one of The Cat Who series. Qwilleran and his cats solve another mystery, this time at the newly sprouted Breakfast Island, a resort hot spot with an attractive history. As it turns out, Breakfast Island is only one of several names given to this island that is also called Pear Island (for its shape). XYZ Developers, an environmentally unconscious consortium buys up the southern part of the island and puts up a gaudy, touristy series of fudge shops, T-shirt shops, pizza shops and a Caribbean Pirate Themed Hotel and Lounge, where a guest is found dead in the pool.
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Meanwhile a customer named Griffin at a market buys up 100 pounds of meat, all of the meat available at the market and gets in a fight with another customer who wants to purchase meat. Cardillo and Pena respond after the security officer detains Griffin and says he needs the meat for his "pet." The officers are about to take him to the evacuation shelter but he insists that he needs to feed his pet cat, and that an old man and a retired police officer are in his apartment complex refusing to evacuate. Due to the fact that a retired police officer needs evacuation, they agree to take Griffin to his apartment so he can feed his pet and they will evacuate everyone in the building.
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After the match, CM Punk cashed in his Money in the Bank contract, which guaranteed him a title match at the time and place of his choosing, and defeated Hardy for his newly won title. There were also two other highly publicized matches; the first was a steel cage match for the WWE Championship between the champion Randy Orton and Batista, as well as a submission match between The Big Show and John Cena. Featured matches on the undercard included a No Holds Barred match between Rey Mysterio and Chris Jericho for the WWE Intercontinental Championship, CM Punk versus Umaga in a Samoan Strap match and a Triple Threat Hardcore match for the ECW Championship. The event had 213,000 buys, up from the One Night Stand 2008 figure of 194,000 buys.
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Hotel consolidator (also called a hotel broker or discounter) is a travel company or business that buys up blocks of hotel rooms in top destinations and then resells them at discounted rates to the final customer. Hotel consolidators’ seemingly to brokers buy in bulk and then resell at a predetermined discount thus creating a big push search for discounted hotel deals online and passing the savings on to their customers. Global hotel consolidators usually offer discounted rooms in almost every major tourist destination, big city or popular resort while local consolidators focus only on a particular geographic area trying to be most competitive on a key for the company market. Hotel consolidator’s activity can be separated into two main operations: 1) Buying blocks of rooms at volume discounts in certain major cities 2) Distributing “excess rooms” offered by hotels not anticipating full occupancy for given dates.
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James Warren's bad health, combined with changing tastes and business problems, led to internal turmoil and editorial turnover."Two Warren Editors Quit Within Two Weeks," The Comics Journal #67 (October 1981), p. 12.Senstrum, Jim. "New Editor at Warren," The Comics Journal #66 (September 1981), p. 16. The company suspended publishing in late 1981,"Warren Magazines Suspends Publications," The Comics Journal #79 (January 1982), p. 15. editor Bill Dubay left in 1982,"Dubay Leaves Editorship," The Comics Journal #76 (October 1982), p. 28. and Warren declared bankruptcy in 1983. In August 1983, Harris Publications acquired company assets at auction,"Publisher Buys Up Warren Inventory," The Comics Journal #86 (November 1983), pp. 8–9. and published new and reprinted Vampirella comics; Creepy #146 (Summer 1985), continuing the numbering of the original series and containing both new and reprinted material,Creepy, Harris Comics, 1985 series at the Grand Comics Database Creepy: The Limited Series, a four-issue miniseries of new stories; Creepy: The Limited Series, Harris Comics, 1992 series at the Grand Comics Database and other Warren-related comics.
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Deborah Knox for Poets and Quants. August 9, 2015 Stanford MBAs 25 Years Later: Where They Are & Life’s Core LessonsBrier Dudley for the Seattle Times. August 1, 2007 Wireless hi-fi from Seattle’s Open Interface Another former Microsoft employee, Greg Burns, was brought in as chief technology officer.OINA via PR Newswire.. Apr 16, 2002. Press release: Open Interface North America Releases BlueMagic(TM) 3.0 to Target the Embedded Bluetooth(TM) Wireless Connectivity Market OINA created and sold Bluetooth software stack products to chip companies with a focus on mobile devices; OINA products were included in Apple’s iPhone, Motorola’s Razr LG’s Chocolate music phone,Daniel Eran Dilger for Apple Insider. July 02, 2007 Apple's iPhone: an initial (but in-depth) review and Logitech's FreePulse headphones.Bill Ray for The Register. Jan 9, 2008 Qualcomm quietly buys up Bluetooth experts The Logitech deal was based on OINA's product, SOUNDabout Lossless, a lossless audio codec for bluetooth; SOUNDabout had very little lag and high fidelity, supported multi-channel streaming, and allowed headphone manufacturers to avoid decoding MP3 or AAC, which would have required them to pay royalties on those decompression software packages.
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