And some companies may decide it's not too late to buy a happy face by giving out bonuses.
But there are enough exceptions to keep anyone who wants to buy a diesel happy.
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While money can certainly buy a lot of goodies that make us happy, it cannot buy true friendship , the reciprocal attachment that fills the need for affiliation.
If customers are happy they will buy more of your products and services which will increase sales which in turn will make shareholders happy.
We are happy to buy a movie ticket and pay actors to entertain us.
CEOs are happy to buy technology that makes their employees smart, especially about customers.
People are very happy to buy into the Spanish or Mediterranean way of life.
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Happy to buy lunch for another who is willing to share untold treasures of wisdom with you?
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Investors have been happy to buy its inflation-linked bonds, on the expectation that consumer prices will rise sharply.
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The big surprise: People are happy to buy an expensive product online that traditionally they liked to inspect firsthand.
At the very least it shows that some investors are happy to buy BlackBerry at the new low price.
The losers will include those (like Borders, an extinct chain of bookshops) that keep selling things people are happy to buy online.
But it is telling that even after the debt-ceiling debate and the credit-rating downgrade, global investors remain happy to buy American debt because they still see America as a haven in a troubled world.
But it is still perverse that investors were happy to buy shares nine years ago, when the ratio of share prices to profits was three times what it is today, and are now determined to keep their money in cash and bonds.
Part of the problem is that when the large banks took their share of the money, adding billions of capital and liquidity to their balance sheets, investors were encouraged and happy to buy up the large amounts of additional shares that the banks issued, providing the banks with still more capital, which they used to pay back their TARP loans.
EU, only Estonia and Slovenia say they are happy to let foreigners buy land, without restrictions, right away.
No wonder the researchers often bowed to the investment bankers' demand for a buy recommendation to keep client firms happy.
Yahoo would have been forced to put in place a new CEO in mid-restructuring, which is never a happy prospect as Best Buy will tell you.
But oil producers were happy to build (or buy) deep-water drilling platforms when those fields seemed economical.
Meanwhile, companies like Best Buy embrace technology to convert showrooming visitors into happy customers.
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It is, however, highly profitable, and as long as rubes will buy, the snake oil salesman is always happy to oblige.
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And since they aren't allowed to talk about those who buy these yachts, they are only to happy to talk all about the business.
HIBA'S MOTHER: (Through Translator) You buy it to show off during parties or on happy occasions.
If you buy a company, you have to make the customers happy or they're going to leave you.
And also good for the Hong Kong film industry that Americans want to buy a Hong Kong film to remake, makes everybody happy.
What does appear to be clear is that investors are happy to take on risk and eager to buy any asset that offers a higher yield than government bonds.
And Olofsson was happy to report that the military market was eager to buy.
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