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When we know who bought the crime gun, that’s a significant lead for law enforcement. – Mike Feuer	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I got the call to come in and interview on Friday, Aug. 13, at 1:13 p.m. the 13th minute past the 13th hour, u.S. 13 is the route I had to take to get there. I bought a paper that day, and 103 was the winning lottery number. So I put a bet on a horse named Lucky Friday, who was running in the 13th race. – Thomas Fernsler	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's completely appropriate for (African) companies to design and grow with the perspective that they will be bought by a global player with an Africa strategy. – Maurizio Caio	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The government says its aid is only for such purposes as post-disaster rescue. Let's say trucks or helicopters were bought under such programs. The problem is it is impossible to make sure they are used only for such purposes, the best we can do is to make sure intended equipment was purchased. When it comes to how they are used, it is very difficult to draw a clear line between military and non-military. – Yoichi Ishii	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The many forms of slavery, the commercialization, and mutilation of the bodies of women, call out to us to be committed to defeat these types of degradation that reduce them to mere objects that are bought and sold .... – Pope Francis on Saturday	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The company has no cash and it's not able to buy anyone with that much leverage, it would make more sense to be bought. – Celson Placido	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The area they bought in has some of the best groundwater in the region, and having working wells puts their investment in a strong position. – David Hamel	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The news was widely anticipated and built into the market, and if anything, the fact that more bonds will be bought than expected could just mean that conditions are worse than we thought. – Rex Macey	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
A sizeable percentage of the market is factoring in some sort of quantitative-easing announcement, so there's a touch of trepidation, investors have bought the rumour so they could sell the news. – Alistair McCaig	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Strange things happen to men in their 40s, and this was my midlife crisis, i hadn't thought about baseball cards in 30 years. But then I bought one, then two, and it was so pleasurable I thought 'Oh hell, why not?'. – Matt Welch	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I thought, wait a minute, I bought a ticket there last night! – Harold Diamond	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I put the ticket in my wallet and forgot about it, i went to play golf the next day and the guys in the clubhouse were talking about the jackpot-winning ticket someone bought at a Valero on Route 302, and I thought, wait a minute I bought a ticket there last night! – Harold Diamond	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I went to play golf the next day and the guys in the clubhouse were talking about the jackpot-winning ticket someone bought at a Valero on Route 302, and I thought, wait a minute I bought a ticket there last night! – Harold Diamond	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We're seeing more and more inaugural activities that have become more expensive, more lavish, and they're being bought and sold by people who have business pending before government. – Craig Homan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
During the recent downturn, we saw huge quantities of put options bought by oil producers. – Mark Keenan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If a tsunami happened today, would we be prepared? No, we would not, on an official level there has been, in the past, corruption and cut-price equipment bought that does not meet international standards. – Samit Thammasarot	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Mistrust of the government is chronic, following decades of civilian-targeted military operations ... and (trust) will not be bought through token social services without genuine changes to the governance and security sectors. – Kim Jolliffe	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Unfortunately, there are lots of people who've bought these things at the local store or online who don't know anything about the AMA or its safety guidelines. – Ted Ellett	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We actually bought four things, and three of them were little dinosaurs or something, and on the fourth one, it so happened this fell out. – Leona Kelley	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There's definitely further consolidation to come, we bought two companies last year and we will probably buy again. The cost of doing business is increasing and companies are really being squeezed on compliance by the banks. – Stuart Holmes	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The swings in the market are up 1, 2 percent, down 3, 4 percent; it's chaos, depending on what you've bought on margin, you get cash-calls. So you get a lot of people jumping in and a lot of liquidity flowing ... into a stock or group of stocks. If the price on that falls at any point for say 5 or 6 percent, then all the people who bought that will get a call from their broker to say 'You need to pay some more cash or you need to sell right now.'. – Thomas Gatley	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The fact that the amount that they bought is big means that a big pension fund could have bought Japanese shares, it's possible to think that the GPIF (Government Pension Investment Fund) was buying after it announced its portfolio change on Oct. 31. – Shingo Kumazawa	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The GPIF may have bought Japanese stocks in order to raise its allocation of Japanese stocks to (gradually) reach 25 percent. – Shingo Kumazawa	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There's no one more reliable than a man whose loyalty can be bought for hard cash. – Arturo Pérez-Reverte	added by anonymous 9 years ago

When we know who bought the crime gun, that’s a significant lead for law enforcement.

– Mike Feuer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I got the call to come in and interview on Friday, Aug. 13, at 1:13 p.m. the 13th minute past the 13th hour, u.S. 13 is the route I had to take to get there. I bought a paper that day, and 103 was the winning lottery number. So I put a bet on a horse named Lucky Friday, who was running in the 13th race.

– Thomas Fernsler

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's completely appropriate for (African) companies to design and grow with the perspective that they will be bought by a global player with an Africa strategy.

– Maurizio Caio

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The government says its aid is only for such purposes as post-disaster rescue. Let's say trucks or helicopters were bought under such programs. The problem is it is impossible to make sure they are used only for such purposes, the best we can do is to make sure intended equipment was purchased. When it comes to how they are used, it is very difficult to draw a clear line between military and non-military.

– Yoichi Ishii

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The many forms of slavery, the commercialization, and mutilation of the bodies of women, call out to us to be committed to defeat these types of degradation that reduce them to mere objects that are bought and sold ....

– Pope Francis on Saturday

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The company has no cash and it's not able to buy anyone with that much leverage, it would make more sense to be bought.

– Celson Placido

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The area they bought in has some of the best groundwater in the region, and having working wells puts their investment in a strong position.

– David Hamel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The news was widely anticipated and built into the market, and if anything, the fact that more bonds will be bought than expected could just mean that conditions are worse than we thought.

– Rex Macey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A sizeable percentage of the market is factoring in some sort of quantitative-easing announcement, so there's a touch of trepidation, investors have bought the rumour so they could sell the news.

– Alistair McCaig

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Strange things happen to men in their 40s, and this was my midlife crisis, i hadn't thought about baseball cards in 30 years. But then I bought one, then two, and it was so pleasurable I thought 'Oh hell, why not?'.

– Matt Welch

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I thought, wait a minute, I bought a ticket there last night!

– Harold Diamond

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I put the ticket in my wallet and forgot about it, i went to play golf the next day and the guys in the clubhouse were talking about the jackpot-winning ticket someone bought at a Valero on Route 302, and I thought, wait a minute I bought a ticket there last night!

– Harold Diamond

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I went to play golf the next day and the guys in the clubhouse were talking about the jackpot-winning ticket someone bought at a Valero on Route 302, and I thought, wait a minute I bought a ticket there last night!

– Harold Diamond

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We're seeing more and more inaugural activities that have become more expensive, more lavish, and they're being bought and sold by people who have business pending before government.

– Craig Homan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

During the recent downturn, we saw huge quantities of put options bought by oil producers.

– Mark Keenan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If a tsunami happened today, would we be prepared? No, we would not, on an official level there has been, in the past, corruption and cut-price equipment bought that does not meet international standards.

– Samit Thammasarot

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Mistrust of the government is chronic, following decades of civilian-targeted military operations ... and (trust) will not be bought through token social services without genuine changes to the governance and security sectors.

– Kim Jolliffe

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Unfortunately, there are lots of people who've bought these things at the local store or online who don't know anything about the AMA or its safety guidelines.

– Ted Ellett

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We actually bought four things, and three of them were little dinosaurs or something, and on the fourth one, it so happened this fell out.

– Leona Kelley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There's definitely further consolidation to come, we bought two companies last year and we will probably buy again. The cost of doing business is increasing and companies are really being squeezed on compliance by the banks.

– Stuart Holmes

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The swings in the market are up 1, 2 percent, down 3, 4 percent; it's chaos, depending on what you've bought on margin, you get cash-calls. So you get a lot of people jumping in and a lot of liquidity flowing ... into a stock or group of stocks. If the price on that falls at any point for say 5 or 6 percent, then all the people who bought that will get a call from their broker to say 'You need to pay some more cash or you need to sell right now.'.

– Thomas Gatley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The fact that the amount that they bought is big means that a big pension fund could have bought Japanese shares, it's possible to think that the GPIF (Government Pension Investment Fund) was buying after it announced its portfolio change on Oct. 31.

– Shingo Kumazawa

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The GPIF may have bought Japanese stocks in order to raise its allocation of Japanese stocks to (gradually) reach 25 percent.

– Shingo Kumazawa

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There's no one more reliable than a man whose loyalty can be bought for hard cash.

– Arturo Pérez-Reverte

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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