In nineteen sixty-four Abe Pollin bought a failing basketball team from Baltimore,Maryland and brought it to his hometown.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

In eighteen seventy-five, Congress bought all of his Civil War pictures for twenty-five thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Drug-related violence in Mexico has killed more than seven thousand people since the beginning of last year -- often with guns bought in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

In nineteen thirty-three, Eugene Meyer had bought a failing newspaper, The Washington Post.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

The United States bought it in eighteen sixty-seven for seven million dollars.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Historical records say a trader bought the island in eighteen forty-four.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

The British-and-Dutch company Unilever bought Ben and Jerry's in two thousand.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

In eighteen ninety-four the Browns bought a house in Denver,Colorado.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

His mother bought him a saxophone in nineteen thirty-three.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

In 2008,the giant Coca-Cola Company bought 40 percent of Honest Tea and has the option of buying it all in 2011.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

In her talk with reporters, Secretary Clinton praised the Calderon administration's performance in the drug fight, saying that Mexican forces are often out-gunned by drug gangs armed with military-style weapons bought in the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25