But the billing service was taking a risk, so it bought a swap from Enron.
Mr Quadir likes to tell the story of a barber in Bangladesh who could not afford the rent for a shop, so he bought a mobile phone and a motorbike instead, scheduling appointments by phone and going to his clients' homes.
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So he bought a few shares in each company, as well as in a couple of state-owned banks.
Florida Gulf Coast had nothing, so Baker bought a basketball floor and entertained the idea of the team playing in a local ice arena.
So it bought a license from second-generation owners of Italy's Tuscan's brand to use the name in Asia and the U.S., allowing it to take advantage of its Italian roots and 39-year-old history.
After fighting with a basketball player over their right to do so, they bought a horse farm at the base of Blue Hills and set about putting together their campus.
"It takes an extra flight to get here, but it's so worth it, " says Jim Caccavo, a Californian from San Diego whose wife and kids like Moonlight Basin so much they bought a second home here.
Moorman wanted a technology answer, so he bought software from a small firm called MultiModal Applied Systems.
So he recently bought a house on a canal in Fort Lauderdale, started a new company and moved his offshore residence to land.
About one-third of the shelter dwellers are diabetics and the shelter had no way to safely store insulin, so we bought them a refrigerator.
So when he bought a second house nearby, he kept the name Maestrale (Italian for northwest wind) even though he would have preferred Kite Dancer in honor of his recent passion for kite-boarding.
The gift shop was overpriced, so Handy and Karen bought a single postcard and mailed it to themselves as a souvenir.
Merrill was so impressed that it bought a piece of the company and promised to hockey stick sales through its army of stock brokers.
So in 2003 Oringer bought a digital camera and took upwards of 100, 000 generic photographs, which he then posted to a website he created.
J. received his first paycheck, he was so excited that he bought a new soccer ball and spent an entire afternoon kicking it around, all by himself.
So, naturally I bought a bottle of champagne and went home to draft my resignation letter, planning to hand it to my boss the next morning.
George wanted to sweat less for his money, so he saved up and bought a power mower.
Despite his myriad detractors, Zimmerman had his supporters as well, and they seemed to sympathize with the plight of a man so concerned about neighborhood break-ins that he bought a gun and dog and donned the mantle of neighborhood watchman.
More than a few of the 140 members who have bought so far will tell you they think they got a good deal.
But so inept was Hassoun, he bought a backpack, walkie-talkies and some batteries agents asked him to buy and the FBI then incorporated it into the dud bomb fashioned at its lab in Quantico, Va.
So if an investor bought shares of a stock in his IRA within 30 days of selling shares of the same stock at a loss from a joint account, then it is up to him to tell the IRS about the wash sale.
So a few years ago, to protect his views, Tusher bought a perpetual lease.
Andy is going to be a few weeks away from being fit but we bought him for five and a half years so a few weeks out of that won't do us any harm.
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One of his best customers was the union representing ticket agents, which bought 2, 000 or so calendars a year.
Or: It was a flush year, so you bought one of those pejoratively named McMansions.
So his mother took him out, bought him a violin, bogarded him into a university and the rest is history.
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