They picked bucketfuls of apples and made pies and tarts and sauce, which they gifted to their friends.

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Takeover artists use it to boost their buying power, typically financing purchases with small amounts of their own cash and bucketfuls of debt.

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They would rather that the region's richest economy were growing strongly and buying bucketfuls of their exports, while the yen was meanwhile gaining in value.

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