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Action of 31 May 1762

Sawyer and Pownoll now suddenly extremely wealthy had received about £65,000 apiece; Pownoll used his money to buy the Sharpham estate at Ashprington, and to build a large house there designed by Robert Taylor and with gardens designed by Capability Brown.

Al Burt

Florida author David Nolan said he used to buy the Herald just so he could read Al Burt's column.

América Móvil

With assets of over $67 billion (As of April 2012) the company is currently the largest company in Mexico by assets with Banorte very closely behind them with assets of over $59 billion (As of April 2012) It is highly likely that the company will buy a group of companies with at least $29 billion in assets in 2013 in the pension, insurance, payroll, currency exchange and mutual funds industries to secure their position as the most asset rich company in Mexico.

Banco de Oro–Equitable PCI Bank merger

A suggestion by the secretary-general of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, Ernesto Herrera, says that instead of the 100% cash deal, Banco de Oro should offer to the SSS a deal wherein the bank would buy the shares of the SSS to be paid with fifty percent in cash and another fifty percent in Banco de Oro stock.

Bob Klapisch

In response to his book on the 1992 Mets, The Worst Team Money Could Buy: The Collapse of the New York Mets (ISBN 0-8032-7822-5), New York Mets outfielder Bobby Bonilla confronted Klapisch in the team's clubhouse, threatening him, and having to be restrained.

Carry Somers

In 2010 Somers started working with local schools and St Oswald's Church, Ashbourne to raise money to buy glasses for Pachacuti's producers.

Chauncey Jerome

The next morning, officials believed it was impossible to survive the wreckage, but he did; to make more money to buy a new home, he worked at Ansonia Clock Company.

Chuck Versus the Pink Slip

He failed as a Benihana chef, Anna left him for a classmate, and he now lives in the Buy More.

Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs

To highlight this concern, Best Buy Drugs' doctors and editors publish drug-safety reports to draw attention to the adverse effects and risks of prescription drugs, such as Celebrex and Alli.

Cory Edwards

However, once their film was finished, Maurice Kanbar was not in the financial position to make and distribute it, so he took it to the newly formed Weinstein Company, which agreed to buy the film.

Costume jewelry

If you admired a necklace worn by Bette Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, you could buy a copy from Joseff of Hollywood, who made the original.

Curtiss F11C Goshawk

Though not interested in politics, Ernst Udet joined the Nazi party in 1933 when Hermann Göring promised to buy him two new Curtiss Export Hawk II (D-3165 and D-IRIK).

Daniel Peirce

A few years later, he would buy a 1978 Honda CB750 that would become his daily rider, the Landshark.

Deer penis

In season 1 episode 5 of The League, Ruxin and Taco go to Chinatown to buy "3 Penis Wine", involving the infusion of deer penises, dog penises, and snake penises.

Emmy the Great

Interested in music from a young age, she used to go by train to her nearest Tower Records shop so that she could buy the only non-Chinese music they had and, as a result, she developed a liking for bands such as Weezer, The Smashing Pumpkins, and The Lemonheads.

Employment website

The industry attempted to reach a broader, less tech-savvy base in 1998 when Hotjobs.com attempted to buy a Super Bowl spot, but Fox rejected the ad for being in poor taste.

Fred Pontin

He formed a company to buy an old disused camp at Brean Sands near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset in 1946.

Geek Squad

Best Buy terminated its partnership with Office Depot in Orlando, Florida, where Geek Squad precincts were located in 10 Office Depot locations.

High Ruchill

The properties were built during the Interwar period as council managed homes, but many have subsequently been bought by their tenants under "right to buy" agreements.

Hippolyte Bayard

He eventually gave details of the process to the French Academy of Sciences on 24 February 1840 in return for money to buy better equipment.

Huautla de Jiménez

People also visit the town to buy brightly colored hand-woven fabrics made by the native Mazatec women, and to consume the endemic entheogenic fungi, especially the Psilocybe mushrooms.

I Will Buy You a New Life

"I Will Buy You a New Life" is a rock song by the band Everclear from their 1997 album So Much for the Afterglow.

Ion rapid transit

The International Railway Journal reported on July 12, 2013, that the region would be purchasing 14 trainsets, with an option to buy 16 more.

J. Clive Matthews

Formerly known as Europhobia, the blog rose to prominence for its coverage of the 7 July 2005 London bombings and subsequent campaign to raise money to buy emergency service workers a thank-you pint of beer.

Joe Benigno

On April 25, 2013 Benigno faced wide criticism for saying he'd "buy drugs for Tyrann Mathieu" if the New York Jets drafted him.

Josefa Segovia

In 1835, Andrew Jackson tried to buy California for $3.5 million, but Mexico refused the offer.

Kevin Song

Kevin Song (born in South Korea) is a South Korean professional poker player who started playing poker since 1980 and began playing in poker tournaments since 1994 where he has cashed in many of them throughout his poker career, among them are 29 cashes at the World Series of Poker including winning the 1997 World Series of Poker $2,000 buy-in Limit Hold'em event.

Livent

In 1989, after an internal struggle within the company, Cineplex executives Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb negotiated to buy the division, which then included the Pantages Theatre, Toronto, and rights to Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical The Phantom of the Opera.

Luishia Mine

In November 209 African Metals Corporation announced a binding letter of intent to buy Chevalier.

Mason Neely

He is a member of sacred music collective Bifrost Arts and has served as a composer, arranger and musical director for the BBC, RTÉ and S4C networks and scored advertisements for Best Buy, Cisco Systems, Domino's Pizza and Crispin, Porter and Bogusky, as well as the award winning 2007 feature Low and Behold.

Michael Binger

This included a final table appearance in Event 22 a $5,000 buy-in No limit Texas Hold'em tournament (finishing 3rd) won by James Mackey.

Motion Pictures, S.A.

Coinciding with early nineties when the video boom was over the company began to buy American film catalogs for television distribution, with titles such Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi, Apocalypse Now, and Tucker.

Multipart Solutions

In 1993 after the collapse of Leyland DAF the Multipart division, along with the Chorley site, was acquired in a management buy-in.

Nyko Wand

In their review of the original version, the Wand was described by Destructoid as being "as good as and in some ways superior to the original", with "better" buttons, improved grip and otherwise "identical" functionality, concluding with a "Buy it!" rating.

One Drop Foundation

The tournament, known as The Big One for One Drop, was held as part of the 2012 WSOP, and had a record buy-in of US$1 million.

One Hen

Kojo’s life gets lucky when he gets a small loan to buy a hen.

PDC World Cup of Darts

In October 2009, PDC chairman Barry Hearn announced his intention to buy the British Darts Organisation and inject £2 million into amateur darts, but the BDO decided not to accept the offer.

Penn effect

New York for one dollar as in Tokyo for 360 Yen, the pegged nominal exchange rate at the time.

Project Kimber

In 2006, David James entered talks with MG Rover's new owners the Nanjing Automobile Group to buy the MG brand in order to produce a number of sports cars based on the out of production Smart Roadster design following discussions with DaimlerChrysler to buy the Roadster's design, technology and equipment for approximately £13 million.

Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach

She supported the campaigns to end submarine operations of the Royal Navy and United States Navy in the Firth of Clyde, to hold another inquiry into the Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, and the successful bid for the residents of Gigha to buy their own island.

Sealy Corporation

First Boston made a bridge loan to the buy-out firm just as Drexel Burnham Lambert was running into trouble and the junk bond market was drying up, and was stuck with the loan.

Sqwincher

During the Iraq War, Pat Reardon of beverage distributor Hagemeyer North America began a fundraising campaign to buy Quik Stiks to give to soldiers in Iraq where the temperature is frequently hot.

Swap Shop

Tradio, a radio program where listeners can call in to buy and sell items

Trust Oldham

After an American consortium made up of Simon Blitz, Danny Gazal and Simon Corney from New York took over the reins at Boundary Park, Trust Oldham agreed to buy a 3% stake in the club for £200,000.

UK Wolf Conservation Trust

Projects supported by the UKWCT include helping to buy livestock guardian dogs for Bulgarian shepherds, as well as supporting wolf research and education in the Tver region of Russia and also in Croatia.

Velocity Trap

The interception occurs, Stokes and Beth Sheffield (Alicia Coppola), the attractive female navigator are the only survivors of the ensuing gun play, they steal the money and buy the mining colony.

Vimochanam

The male lead, Arumugham, sell his wife's jewelry to buy alcohol until probation in the Salem district offers much-needed relief.

Waldo's Last Stand

When the floor show ends, Spanky asks Froggy why he wouldn't buy a drink and the latter responds, with a Popeye-the-Sailor voice, that he doesn't have any money and that it's to hot in the barn; he then leaves.

Web.com Tour

After three seasons, Nike acquired the title sponsorship and it became the Nike Tour, which held for seven seasons (1993-99), then became the Buy.com Tour for three seasons (2000-02).


see also

Kippy Brown

Jerome earned a basketball scholarship at the University of Tennessee under former Vol head coach Wade Houston, and competed on the Buy.com golf tour.

Starcaster by Fender

Although the range was withdrawn from the Fender website in 2007, it continues to be developed and is now sold through a variety of outlets, such as BJ's Wholesale Club, Amazon.com and Buy.com.