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A lot of people, when the market was hot, bought a lot of properties, and now they're having a hard time selling them.

A lot of people had bought into or held onto the stock in anticipation of the offer, so now they are getting out. And with the Brazilian market so weak, this further diminishes the market's credibility in the eyes of investors.

A lot of people made fun of me. They said, 'Nice bike lift.' I knew exactly what this bike would look like before I even bought one part.

Amazon employees bought a lot of cool stuff as part of the beta program.

Americans have bought lock, stock, and barrel the Jeremy Irons-Kenneth Branagh England. And it's fake. It's an absolute con. Merchant Ivory? Bollocks.

A man was peering through my window on the Fourth of July. He called me up and said he wanted to look at that piece. He was from Helena but he lived in California. He bought it that day.

They may even get bigger. I love big sunglasses. I just bought a new pair.

They make electronic components for the original equipment manufacturers. In February, they bought the Motorola ( MOT ) division that makes parts for wireless cell phones. Well, it came down a little bit..made a new high, dropped a little bit, and is now on the way back up. They have the potential strong earnings growth.

They play a Big Ten style. They've recruited big strong players, and have done a great job recruiting to their needs. They have a tremendous tradition, from (Bruce) Weber, through (Matt) Painter, and now Lowery. They have always made defense a big part and their kids have bought into it. They take you out of your comfort zone and make it hard to run your offense.

They have bought into the system so much. They have just continued to do everything they can to get better. They're such great kids. They're 4.0 students, they don't get into trouble, they go to class on time. And they just worked so hard.

They got lucky. They bought into a hot market.

They gave us a letter explaining we would be compensated at the end of the trip, then they said it wasn't actually compensation, it was that if we bought another cruise we get a discount.

They hadn't eaten in four days. One of the officers bought them some hamburgers.

They had a house in Denver and a farm in Aurora. Mom and I had an egg route. When Dad went into law practice, they bought a ranch in Bailey and two in South Park.

You don't see them like this every day, do you? I pretty much bought it the way it is but cleaned it up real good.

There was huge animosity toward people (who bought foreign cars).

There was a tremendous sense of betrayal on the part of the employees because they had bought into the philosophy of being independent and that bank had been so successful, ... To a person, there was a sense of loss.

There weren't enough tapes. It was a textbook example of how having a better machine doesn't guarantee success. The best platform in the world is not going to be bought by a large number of people unless there are a large number of games to be played on it.

There is no way Top Wind can think that I am going to breeze in and buy a flute, so I can truthfully say that the flute I bought from them was intended for the general market.

This is when people get the more traditional items to go with the trendier stuff they've already bought earlier in the year.

This is the last week, with nothing to play for and we worked a lot of extra hours to try to scheme Dallas a little bit. Our players bought into it. I am very proud of them. We talked earlier in the week. You are putting your resume out there. We are playing the last game of the season, national televised game, we didn't know whether Dallas would be playing for a playoff spot or not.

This is the highest the waters have come since we bought the place. The water rose fast and went down fast. We left about 8 and were back home by 12:30 p.m.

This is untrue. The ship belongs to Hezbollah, which bought it from its Iraqi owner for $400,000,

This kind of guy is renting space. He bought a cup of coffee in order to have some space.

They played well together and got along well. They played hard from the beginning to the end. They were aggressive. They got after it on the floor. They never gave up. Many games were up-and-down games, but they never gave in. Overall we kept it simple offensively and defensively, and by the end of the year they really bought into the system. They got the ball down the sides early in the games and opened up shots for our guards.

They really help. We know they have our backs every time we're in here. Our students have bought in, and they like to see us play.

They're now looking at a situation where their shareholders are going to see the fund is down for the year but they're going to have to pay taxes on large gains. The managers are selling tech stocks that they might have bought at higher prices to realize losses and offset the gains.

They're looking for a new chief executive. There is a strategic review going on looking at whether all the business should be bought or parts of it.

There's a very large percentage of cars being bought and sold today as originals that, in fact, are not,

There's been kind of a general malaise in apparel over the last couple of years. We are still suffering the effects of the change from traditional business apparel to casual apparel. Those (casual wear) carry much lower price points and people still haven't figured out what casual is. People are waiting to see how it's going to shake out. Where a woman may have bought a $100 skirt in the past, she's now buying a $20 skirt.

The most expensive book I bought was $10. It's all relative to today's market.

It's just the feeling of the guys. I think we've really bought into it.

It wasn't something that couldn't be bought over the counter, and that's a big distinction in my mind. No one was trying to do anything illegal or hide anything.

It was bad. We flew commercial flights, and we'd fly the day of the game to play doubleheaders. Before he bought it, we were just in limbo. We didn't know who was going to be the owner. All of a sudden he jumped up and bought it in '79. He brought a class to it. He changed our environment, the way we were perceived because we were owned by credit companies. He changed it to a first-class organization.

It was sold out yesterday, ... I actually went to the grocery store and bought frozen apple pie (because) I wanted it so bad.

It was the most exciting music I'd ever heard, ... And 'Company' was the first album -- as in old-fashioned LP -- I ever bought for myself, which of course was pretty strange since all my peers were listening to the Rolling Stones.

It was as different as night and day. The thing that impressed me most about these guys is that they bought in to what we taught.

It was as perfect as you can imagine. Right from the start Brent Sutter never let us off the hook. He was huge for us. We all respect him and everybody bought in.

It was important to Roman when he bought the club that it was in the Champions League because he wanted to accomplish something immediately,

It's a breath of fresh air to have a company that makes good business decisions. I'm excited, and that's why I've expanded and bought more horses.

It's a credit to the guys and the job they did all year being so consistent. Our coaching staff, we assembled a good group of players that have bought in to what we're trying to do.

It is our hope that this relieves some of the political pressure. People were starting to question the benefits of foreign investment. We haven't seen this since the Japanese bought Rockefeller Center.

It is the classic example of how people bought on rumors and sold on news.

It's an ideal, in my mind, that I bought into, and I'm not ready to let it go.

It's a happy coincidence that when we bought the Fantasy catalog we were also able to sign one of the most relevant and talented singer-songwriters of our generation. We're all enormous fans of his music. He's a big hero here.

I told them we're going to be physical. If you're not willing to be that or can't be that, you won't be playing. They bought into that. There's no other way to play defense the way we see it.

It surprises us when the money is unclaimed. You never can tell just why. Someone might have been here on vacation and bought a ticket. Sometimes people just forget to check and then forget they have it.

It's not surprising as many people would rather vote in their village constituencies. Many candidates have bought or hired boats to take voters back to their villages to vote.

Foreigners have bought a lot of Taiwan's stocks, making it the biggest factor strengthening the currency.

For $60, I once bought a neck massage at a 'massage parlor' that advertised in 'The Washington Post.'

It's the way it was since my great-grandpa bought the building.

It's the first day of the quarter, which means there was a lot of end-of-quarter window dressing yesterday. So a lot of people who bought yesterday are looking for reasons to sell today.

It's the old story again; gold is being bought as a safe haven asset.

It's the psychological barrier. There are people who might be interested in a Mac who wouldn't have bought one because they're afraid they might need Windows.

It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'.

It looks like they bought a good part of York's program, though I'm not sure they didn't plan these changes anyway. York's arrival on the board simply accelerated the changes.

It makes every consumer seem like a potential pirate. We have grave concerns; it seems a crime to disenfranchise so many consumers who have already bought these products in good faith.

It's an incredible achievement, particularly when I remember that when I bought the Yankees, we had trouble drawing 1 million to the stadium. We have the greatest fans in the world.

It's a popular area. People who bought their homes at a good price have little incentive to move on.

It's going to be a lot of fun. I just bought my mom a house there. She'll be there. I'm really excited about that trip.

It's been a process for our team because it's a young team. We were sort of forced into that. We lost a very good ball player when we lost Megan Frazee. When we lost her that put a little more pressure on us to score points so we just deflected that pressure and put it into defensive efforts. The kids really bought into that and took some sense of pride in that.

It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in the opposite direction because of a pressing need to straighten all the pictures on the walls, floss my teeth a second time, and make certain that there really are 100 postage stamps in the roll of stamps I bought yesterday.

David Chase invented the Big Pussy rule, which is that no one lives forever. I would've bought something five years ago, but I thought they'd kill me.

Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.

Consumers demand a spectrum of services, and if you can't afford to invest in that spectrum of services, you're going to be bought out.

The newspaper business is a great business, ... We've just made the biggest acquisition in the history of our industry when we bought four newspapers from Disney ( DIS ). We think the newspaper business in print form . . . is a very, very good business.

Then we grew and bought the building in front and remodeled it.

Everybody has their own bed. The principal of Dogwood Elementary, Robin Cochran, gave me one inflatable bed, a teacher there gave me another one and we bought one more.

Everybody has dreams. Ever bought a lottery ticket? You talk about it, 'Hey, what are you going to do?' Buy an island. Buy an airplane. In reality, I'm not really a fan of flying, and I don't like water.

Everybody had us in the NIT. We wanted to prove ourselves. After that tournament, everybody bought into the fact we could be a special team.

It's like if you bought a brand new car and five days later you had to bring it back to the shop because it didn't function day after day after day. It makes no sense, you'd find a different manufacturer.

It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money. They don't have insurance. People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

It's like, 'Hey, I'm the guy who just bought the house down here for $340,000. I just paid $600 for this bike. I'll be going to Wal-Mart tonight, and I'll let you know how much I'll be paying for the groceries,'

It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.

It's something else to be here. These kids are believers and they have worked hard to get here. I have a heck of a coaching staff and these kids bought into what we were telling them.

It's not a sell yet. But if you bought it back when it was trading at a split-adjusted $20, you might want to take some money off the table.

Everyone is buying investment property right now. They are coupon clippers. This has tremendous upside due to the current contract rent. . . . They bought this property at or below replacement cost.

Everyone, from the coaches down to the players, have bought into the system and the cross-training.

Everyone bought into it. There's just too many good players at our school to put up with that.

Everyone has their own reasons why they do things. All I know is this is my team right now, and the guys have bought into what we're trying to do. The playoffs are what drive everybody in this league, and we're looking forward to what's going to happen.

Everyone has bought BP for its U.S. exposure. It's delivered on that to an extent, but not as much as people had hoped, and now the U.S. environment is easing; refining margins are coming back, gas prices are easing off.

Everybody liked John, but everyone said he was too slow. But when Tim had a conviction on a player, you knew it, and you bought into it.

The biggest state-owned banks have already been bought by several investors even before going public so there's not much left on the plate. Investors will go for the smaller banks if they want to play a part in China's fast-growing financial industry.

The borrowing paid for the imports that the United States bought from countries that were suffering from deep recessions and pulled them out of those recessions.

The best thing I ever bought is my dog Stitch. He's the best friend & companion.

The best thing about them is they have totally bought into winning. They don't care about their stats; they just care about doing what it takes to win.

Taxpayers bought Miami-Dade residents thousands of television sets, air conditioners and other appliances,

It's important for the public to understand that Coffin Rock was gone before Weyerhaeuser bought it.

It's inevitable that many of the camera manufacturers in the market today will be either bought up or go out of business.

It's been crazy around here. The principal bought 800 championship T-shirts and they're giving them out to everybody.

It's amazing. One lady came in and saw her daughter's classroom up there and bought everything on the list.

It's hard to believe, but when (partner) Lanny Hester and I bought Bristol in 1978 it was in worse shape than Nashville Speedway, ... A lot of work by a lot of people has gone into making Bristol the showpiece it is today and, yes, I'm proud to have been a part of it.

It's great. These seniors have bought in to what I've brought since day one and this just validates their effort and how hard they've worked to get here. It puts a stamp on the program.

It was kind of the consensus that the stock would be bought out for as much as $30. It seems in line with expectations.

It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them.

I walked up to the customer, and said, 'I think I know what she wants,' ... They bought the rug and he never said another word about me not selling. He was born in America, but was an Armenian man from a different era. He adapted and accepted the idea of a daughter in a non-secretarial position, and he complimented me to everyone.

I've just bought myself a G-string - which is rather fun.

I've had bowlers come in here with a ball that is black, and it was green when they bought it. They claim the ball isn't moving any longer. I know right away what is wrong.

I've gone to China, bought a manufacturing company and moved it to America. Now China wants to buy back some of that new technology from me. That's a great story for America.

Nothing is set in stone, but developers are seeming to build these cookie cutter sub-divisions there are not creative. There's no old New England look, like a Colonial worth $300,000 next to a bungalow or another house worth $500,000. They all look the same, and I'd like to see something different, but that's me personally. You can't blame developers trying to make a profit, and you can't stop them. Everything has to be the same because material is bought in bulk.