The city approached the company about buying the center and its land.
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In the 1980s, it was Japan buying up Rockefeller Center and U.S. real estate.
Right now, the cost of buying servers is the largest data center expense, and power comes second, accounting for around 40 percent of operational costs.
The dialysis center itself will be responsible for buying and prescribing drugs.
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Local restrictions notwithstanding, GM doesn't want the additional cost of building a national distribution center until more people are comfortable with buying big-ticket items online.
The service center advised that I could ship the unit to them for repair. (Now, this is a mixer that is heavy with a capital H.) The CSR at the service center also explained that I would be buying the entire assembly.
For example, before buying the suburban Chicago retail property, named the Yorktown Center, Mr. Rosenberg said his team spoke with executives at more than 100 companies, including Toys 'R' Us, which KKR acquired in 2005 as part of a consortium.
Among big banks, Schutz has a sizable position in Citigroup, which he expects to generate the best returns among money center banks as it sells off bad assets and begins buying back stock.
Many bioethics organizations such as the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University which 15 years ago objected to the buying and selling of kidneys have now come full circle, favorably featuring those who believe a for-profit model has virtues.
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For too many Western brands, "it's the ugliest race to the bottom because the financial crisis in America and Europe means that people are getting very scared of buying expensive things, " says Sanjiv Pandita, executive director of the Hong Kong-based Asia Monitor Resource Center, which tracks labor conditions across the region.
For example, the IP data center segment grew by 170% year-on-year, reflecting the fact that many companies are buying high-end servers that can handle the massive Internet traffic associated with cloud-based computing services.
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