Over the next two decades, he bought many radio and television stations.
The Slovene retail chain Mercator bought many stores in ex-Yugoslav states, expecting the standard of living to rise as their countries got closer to EU membership.
One has to ask the obvious question: why have European banks bought so many government bonds?
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They bought so many companies and they were trying to keep them all afloat.
Unless they had seen this coming and had bought it many years ago.
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Middle-class Algerians bought so many imported Renault, Peugeot and Hyundai cars that the government slapped on a sales tax to reduce traffic jams.
All the wines and spirits have been bought over many decades.
Between 2000 and 2005, the company bought out many of its old partners, including GFT and a group of shoemakers in the industrial area near Venice.
His mission for justice was ill fated when the accused bought as many available copies of the book as possible to prevent its allegations from reaching a wider audience.
Health-care companies have bought up many small, previously male-owned independent practices and raised women's wages closer to men's, while offering more flexible work schedules, Ms. Goldin said.
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To complicate matters further, in recent decades Brazilians have bought up many smallholdings and turned them into vast soya farms, which have become the mainstay of the economy and of government revenues.
For instance, the Army bought so many of one type of tactical radio over the last 30 years that there are actually more of that type of radio in the force than there are soldiers.
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This month, the government boosted to 15% from 10% the fee added to the purchase price of residential property bought by many foreign nationals, including the Chinese, who were the second-largest group of foreign buyers last year.
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Many bought into the Ivano Bonetti experiment that ousted Scott, promising free-flowing football and star names.
By some estimates, they bought twice as many aeroplanes as the market could support.
Keenest to ensure that the banks own up to their past sins are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the housing agencies that bought or guaranteed many of the loans.
Many of them will get bought by the big guys, but many more will likely fade away, unable to articulate to marketers what the heck they actually do.
Not the hardest restriction to circumvent, many motorists bought an old banger with the other plate.
She said many practices bought the 084 numbers to help with "directing callers to the right person".
This would especially be true for long term bonds, which many retirees bought for their higher interest rates.
Many had bought at higher prices, meaning it would not take much of a pullback to erase any gains.
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About 250 people had watched the show but the theatre did not know how many had bought the album.
Many he bought from the personal files of Mad publisher William Gaines.
Of course there were the die-hard Apple fans and iPhone users, but many who bought the iPad did so for practical reasons.
JetBlue suspended the deal two days early, saying they were sold out, though the company declined to specify how many people bought them.
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Many works bought then as autograph pictures have since been downgraded, clouding perceptions of the artist, while the type of paintings Americans preferred further distorts things.
Starting in the late 1980s, many families bought or built second homes in vacation spots, covering the overhead by renting them out during the high seasons.
Many people bought their first TVs, or crowded around the few ones available, to see a comic who'd mine for laughs each week by wearing a dress.
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