• The proposed changes would cut the discounts available to those who want to purchase their home through right-to-buy and place greater restrictions on where it would be available, for example, in areas where housing is in under particular pressure.

    BBC: Shelter Scotland urges end to right-to-buy policy

  • Is Japan willing to consider offsetting the codevelopment arrangement on the FS-X with a substantial off-the-shelf defense purchase to demonstrate Japanese willingness to buy American when it is sensible to do so?

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The US-Japan FS-X Fighter Agreement: Assessing The Stakes

  • Meanwhile, Rosneft moved to purchase the other half of TNK-BP, agreeing to buy it from AAR, a group of four Russian billionaires.

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  • When low-income household members buy PCs, they tend to purchase systems that are more sophisticated than computers with rock-bottom price tags, according to Dave Tremblay, InfoBeads senior industry analyst.

    CNN: Typical PC buyer -- revealed!

  • The building owner will sign a long-term power purchase agreement to buy the electricity the solar array generates and will pay 5.5% interest on the loan Mosaic provides to install the panels.

    FORBES: Startup Launches Online Platform To Let Individuals Invest In Solar Projects

  • Once upon a time gold bulls had to pay a hefty markup to buy coins or had to purchase shares in gold-mining companies and hope that the management was competent.

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  • As long as you are selling to homo-sapiens, the fundamental motivations to buy and the skills to obtain purchase commitments will remain the same.

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  • When companies subsidize the purchase of devices, employees tend to buy top-of-the-line models.

    FORBES: How BYOD And Big Data Are Changing Marketing

  • The rules currently give a buyer's broker the option--but not mandate--to buy-in the short-seller's undelivered shares--that is, purchase the undelivered shares in the market and charge the seller's broker the cost of doing so.

    FORBES: Intelligent Investing Briefing Book

  • This might be seen as ironic in the light of western interest in such things as drug-donation programmes (in which drug companies give away their products in countries which cannot afford to buy them) and vaccine-purchase funds (which guarantee sales to firms that come up with effective new vaccines for poor-world diseases).

    ECONOMIST: A poor diagnosis

  • As we can see from his recent purchase, he likes to buy companies that are traded at 52-week lows, too.

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  • Al-Faraj successful purchase comes after a previous failed attempt to buy the club in August, when former owner Alexander Gaydamak sold his majority shareholding to Al Fahim instead.

    CNN: Al Faraj completes Portsmouth takeover

  • Eight19, a start-up spun out of Cambridge University, has a similar model in which small payments, like those used to buy kerosene, allow the purchase of a solar-lighting system to be spread out.

    ECONOMIST: Solar lighting

  • BMW's ill-starred purchase of Rover show how hard it is for them to buy their way into the general market.

    ECONOMIST: Germany's cars

  • Brand marketers use CI Where-to-Buy buttons to make it easier for customers to purchase the products they love at their favorite retailers, improving the shopping experience.

    FORBES: Google Fortifies Ecommerce Chops With $125 Million Acquisition

  • Buy-to-let investors, who have tended to purchase cheaper properties, have partially compensated for the disappearing first-time buyer (see chart).

    ECONOMIST: Housing market

  • Indeed, in Dr Moran's opinion, current proposals such as advanced-purchase commitments, in which governments try to create a paying market by promising to buy large amounts of new products designed to combat neglected diseases run the risk of swaying industry toward for-profit, do-it-yourself drug development.

    ECONOMIST: New hope in developing drugs for the poor

  • Odom alleged that Best Buy included software with his purchase that provided a six-month free trial to MSN.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • More students preferred to be loaned an iPad and purchase the corresponding e-books (and eventually return the iPad) than buy the iPad outright (and own it).

    FORBES: Pros And Cons Of iPads In The Classroom

  • Thirteen percent of underage teenage shoppers were able to buy M-rated video games, a statistically significant improvement from the 20 percent purchase rate in 2009.

    FORBES: Connect

  • These days, it costs just about the same to buy cloud time on, say, Amazon as it does to purchase your own in-house computing network.

    FORBES: Rethinking the Cloud

  • The goal of buy-and-hold investing is to find a mix of attractive investments and purchase them with the intention of holding onto them for an extended period of time.

    FORBES: Proactive Buy-And-Hold Strategy

  • If a card belonging to a Berliner has never been used to purchase a plane ticket or buy goods outside Germany, the system may block an attempt to book a Moscow-Tokyo flight leaving in three hours.

    ECONOMIST: Computing

  • Its brilliantly-performing stock financed its purchase of More in 1998, and since then it has gone on to buy more outdoor companies Dauphin (which operates in France, Italy and Spain), Plakanda (Switzerland and Poland) and Jolly (Italy).

    ECONOMIST: Advertising

  • In fact, the XO's isolation from the Web might have been a reason why consumers didn't snap them up during the buy-one-donate-one promotion that allowed U.S. consumers to purchase XOs between November and January--the promotion ended Jan. 1.

    FORBES: Intel Vs. The XO

  • Even factoring in inflation, which ran between 2.5% and 3.5% for most of the decade, a home purchase really did produce wealth for anybody who opted to sell some stocks and buy at around the time the dot-com crash got rolling.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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