Then, in 1985, it bought Hoover Universal, a Michigan manufacturer of parts used in automotive seats.
In July 2005 it bought Delphi's battery business, gaining a big foothold in Asia.
Only last August, for instance, it bought daily deals startup Dealmap, based in Menlo Park, California.
The policies it bought were all past the standard two-year contestability period, Mr. Thomas said.
Last year it gained a Middle East footprint when it bought Dubai's ETA Star Cement.
And the Apple-watching community is so starved of real news that it bought into iWatch instantaneously.
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But the billing service was taking a risk, so it bought a swap from Enron.
The company also noted that it bought back 6.1 million shares in the quarter.
It bought several rival search technologies, including AltaVista and Inktomi, which its engineers souped up.
The Dubai concern said it bought the property in November 2005 from investor Robert M.
The internationalization strategy of Eurofarma began in 2009 when it bought 60-year-old Argentine laboratory Quesada.
The French firm had inherited the stake when it bought Orange from Vodafone last year.
The company noted that it bought back 3.6% of its outstanding shares in the quarter.
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That is, if it bought a stock in Brazil it could simultaneously short some reals.
He joined the company in May after it bought his Old Lane investment management firm.
Evraz says it bought the shares (later, from new holders) in the normal way of business.
Oracle broke that rule once and perhaps for all when it bought Sun Microsystems.
On Tuesday, the company said it bought Bluefin Labs, which analyzes tweets about TV shows.
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Berkshire has actually been in the news business since 1977, when it bought The Buffalo News.
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It bought stakes in a dozen institutions, hoping simply to hold on and then sell out.
It bought Jaywalk in 2002, and McMahon, now 34, moved to New York.
In 1985 it bought a small Salem, Oregon, aviation technology company, mainly to develop its package-tracking system.
Having built up a consumer-finance business, last year it bought Meridional, a state-owned bank in southern Brazil.
Deutsche Bank has a small bank in Italy, which it bought from Bank of America in 1986.
It bought all the gold produced by China's 1, 000 or so mines and allocated it to jewellers.
Ashanti, a gold producer, nearly went bankrupt because of derivatives it bought from, among others, Goldman Sachs.
If it bought, it would have to integrate its purchase well, and its record is not good.
In 1978 it bought part of First Boston, an American investment bank, and took control in 1990.
Once the parent of Boeing and United Airlines, UTC was mainly an aerospace outfit until it bought Otis.
Between its own subsidiary and Impexbank, which it bought last year, Raiffeisen now has 250 branches in Russia.
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