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Incidentally, if the current credit crisis continues and private equity firms lose their appetite for takeovers, that could mean purchase prices for companies start to fall, and it could also compel SWF's to make acquisitions whether they otherwise wouldn't have.
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Last fall reports surfaced that Apple purchase Google Maps competitor Placebase.
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The project, which began last fall, uses donations to purchase debt.
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If interest rates fall, consumers will enjoy even less income to purchase things.
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In her case, she would "fall in love" with an investment or a purchase and rush into it without considering the risks.
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In order to stave off default by one or more large countries like Spain or Italy (and possibly even France if either of those do fall over) someone, somewhere, needs to purchase large amounts of the bonds of those two countries.
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That immediate gratification attitude is what gets our credit card balances skyrocketing, our decision to purchase a home with little or no money down, little or no cash reserves to fall back on and insufficient assets to fund education for our children or retire in comfort.
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Over two-thirds of parents surveyed told researchers that they planned to purchase name-brand sneakers and jeans for their children before the first school bell rings this fall.
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On tablets, she notes that purchase intentions are more than triple the installed base, while pointing out that unit share is likely to fall slightly due to the Amazon Kindle Fire.
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But, it argues, these fall foul of both an obstructive bureaucracy and the slow and corruption-prone legal procedure for the compulsory purchase of land or buildings.
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