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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.

With this change in the mood on Argentina, investors are buying Brazilian stocks almost indiscriminately as everything here is so cheap now.

Worries about an interest rate rise have virtually disappeared, the consensus is now that the Fed won't raise rates, ... Volume is a bit better than yesterday but most of the buying is in half a dozen stocks. Unless we start seeing a broader rally on more volume we can't be convinced that we're out of the woods yet.

Word-of-mouth recommendation is the most common way to learn about real estate professionals. The most important criteria, whether you're buying or selling, are the individual agent's reputation and their knowledge of the local market.

We're still seeing some good volumes in selected shares and there's definitely a big contingent of foreign buying in our market.

We're starting to see some evidence of slowdown in the U.S., which is going to be a risk for us. The biggest concern is the oil price and foreign investors who have been buying Japan may be reluctant to buy from here.

We're seeing some typical selling after a sharp run-up. People are buying the safe names, like Philip Morris (MO: Research, Estimates) and Coca-Cola (KO: Research, Estimates), and selling anything that seems suspicious.

We're seeing some typical selling after a sharp run-up, ... People are buying the safe names, like Philip Morris (MO: Research, Estimates) and Coca-Cola (KO: Research, Estimates), and selling anything that seems suspicious.

We're seeing massive buying in bank stocks on the back of economic optimism. What we need to see is this sort of targeted buying of lenders spreading to other industries. With that we will have further sustainable gains.

We're seeing a lot of play between the telecom companies. People are shorting some and buying others.

We're seeing a good amount of foreign buying today. After the developments over the weekend, the market seems to be taking the view that she has it (the security situation) under control.

We?re seeing a fundamental shift in consumer buying behavior. We expect this trend to continue as 2006 will give the mass market dual-core processors and 64-bit capabilities.

We're seeing across the board buying after tame employment data out of the U.S., which is reducing pressure for interest rate hikes, and a good response to residential property sales over the weekend.

We've got low volume and not a whole lot of new buying interest. You're just not there yet from a technical standpoint. It's going to be choppy for the next few days.

We've got deteriorating economic fundamentals still. We're probably in a mild recession, but the question is will the consumer keep buying and will the investor keep buying stocks.

The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.

Making love to a woman is like buying real estate: location, location, location.

We have seen buying across products and client types. But clearly they're being overwhelmed by the selling in New York.

We have seen a lot of traders buying on pull backs but then taking small profits as the market recovers rather than sitting on their positions waiting for a big market move.

We have seen a lot of pre-positioning. Boomers are buying that retirement home before they have sold their current residence.

When you see a show like this, I think it will make you care a lot more about art. It might make someone go start painting, inspire them to learn about an artist or start buying art.

The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.

A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable to look at companies that were aggressively buying their own shares. They were motivated simply to buy below what it was worth.

It took us months of buying all the Coke stock we could to accumulate $1 billion worth - equal to 7% of the company. It's very hard to accumulate major positions.

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.

Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power of Wal-Mart and Costco has increased dramatically.

The basic concept of value to a private owner and being motivated when you're buying and selling securities by reference to intrinsic value instead of price momentum - I don't think that will ever be outdated.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

We are already at a critical level, ... There is not enough gas coming in for production to be at 100 percent. It's a critical situation. It's day by day. It's okay if we are buying gas from alternative sources, but getting it into the Florida pipeline, that is the issue. As long as it flows, we're okay. But if that flow ceases, we're in trouble.

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.

Way too much is made of the slowdown of money into funds in December. For the last several years, there have been countless articles telling investors 'Don't buy a fund in late November or early December' because you might be buying just before it pays its dividend and then you'll have to pay taxes on the dividend next April Investors are doing what's rational and right.

Way too much is made of the slowdown of money into funds in December, ... For the last several years, there have been countless articles telling investors 'Don't buy a fund in late November or early December' because you might be buying just before it pays its dividend and then you'll have to pay taxes on the dividend next April? Investors are doing what's rational and right.

Way too many people have been saying this. I'm even getting people asking if the Fed is buying stocks, which is just too weird.

During the offseason, I go to the movies almost every day. You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?

You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.

When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'

[I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

The investor has a right to expect good results to flow from a consistent and courageous application of the principle of buying after the market has declined substantially and selling after it has had a spectacular rise. But he cannot expect to reduce this principle to a simple and foolproof formula, with profits guaranteed and no anxious periods.

We want to buy fresh, but we don't want to deal with it, I can make pretty exotic meals, but I don't have to deal with buying ingredients, chopping vegetables and cleaning up.

Needless to say, I'll be buying my Irwin Tools at Lowe's.

There are people who would be more interested in buying a laptop that runs Linux if they could get it pre-installed. But the main reason people still aren't using Linux on the desktop is the lack of Microsoft Office.

There are some stocks that are being sold for no particular reason, even though they weren't overvalued. When the dust settles, these may pose a buying opportunity. However, it may take longer for the IT-related stocks to recover.

The only way I'd vote was if I was running. People could spend more valuable time buying rock albums, because it's obvious that music is more powerful than politics, or else the President wouldn't have to go on MTV to address anyone.

There are definitely signs that consumer demand has been picking up. Funds are buying heavily.

We deem this action representative of a market that has lost the flurry of last week's panic buying and instead is rethinking its view as to the near-term motivation of the Fed and the impact of Katrina.

We decided to ... reach as many people as possible by buying a Super Bowl spot. In our business, you want to reach a lot of people. This vehicle is unprecedented in how many people it reaches in a short amount of time. People tune in to watch the commercial. It's a whole different environment.

We thought we could spin the news story of a Gregorian chant hit in Europe into something that would catch the attention of the media here, ... We put a big bet on the roulette table. We spent a great deal of money in buying some TV advertising. So, we got the message out there that this thing existed and our distribution company was right there with us and we got the initial distribution.

We're able to provide transportation to the public that's not going to cost that much additional money. The county is not going to be buying new vehicles or hiring new drivers.

We're always out looking for these sorts of deals: buying branded properties in strong markets with limited competition.

Yesterday, late in the day, we saw big buying in the Internet sector and we heard there were some big institutions in the market buying. It looks like they walked away today.

We've seen quite good sales figures from all the UK life insurance stocks. It looks like people are buying savings products once more and the sector seems to be performing relatively well again now after a tough few years.

We've seen dip buying and think that's a precursor to larger commitment into supply.

The fact that Softbank drew active buying even after it entered ex-dividend shows strong interest for equity investment by retail investors.

The fact that Intel doesn't really offer very low-power x86 devices that are compatible with the Internet infrastructure and Microsoft really doesn't offer a robust Internet operating system that can be used without a hard disk drive has led to this opening. We've capitalized on both of those vectors, and customers like it and are buying it.

The fact is the company's doing everything right for the future. They're buying back shares. They're basically using their size as an advantage.

The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars.

There is a lot of buying going on right now.

There is clearly some month-end buying going on.

There is buying this morning on relief after the interest rate news but people are hesitant to go all out because the focus is shifting to what Taiwan's new president will say in his inauguration speech at the weekend.

When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.

We use what's out there instead of buying new.

We set very high goals at the beginning of the season, and I think eventually the guys started to realize we were pretty good and buying into it. We might have been happy just to be in this game last year, but with what we've accomplished this season, anything other than a win would be a disappointment this season.

I don't think humans are meant to be looked at when we're buying pants.

We have heard reports of people with a lot of money, including sports figures, trying to one up each other by buying exotic fish such as black tip reef sharks. We're concerned that reefs might be wrecked and fish depleted.

This program's always had tough kids. That is way too general. ... I'm not buying they didn't have toughness here.

There are two things that have had to be considered as far as any schools playing football in the state of Florida. No. 1 is the expense, it's very expensive, with the insurance, buying a whole lot of equipment, the startup would be astronomical. And No. 2 is Title IX and gender equity. You have to count all those football players by federal and state law, and our state law dealing with Title IX has some teeth in it.

The only place that I have to be really careful is I don't want people buying tickets to my shows thinking they are going to see Garth Brooks, because he is a stay-at-home dad. He is not coming on tour with me, and I just don't want people to be disappointed.

I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.

Try to find if something out there is similar. If it's already being done, now you need to find out if you can do it better or cheaper. If you have a good product and no one's buying, improve it and tweak it.

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

The primary support factor today is the lift in crude. You also could be seeing more aggressive buying in heating oil.

The price is typically predicated by the cost of doing business in an area. However, there usually is a significant price difference between buying a casket at a funeral home and buying one at Costco.

We need to make sure we're not just buying technology to buy technology.

We're seeing very strong institutional buying and it's for all commodities. Funds are seeing that there are very low inventories for copper and zinc and that's just an indicator of how tight the market is and how strong the worldwide economy is.

We're looking at speed detection devices. I assure you we're going to be buying some of this stuff somehow or another.

We're looking at companies which are taking advantage of high energy prices, and we've been buying energy stocks. We try to avoid consumer-related stocks as high gasoline prices will impact the consumer.

We're not buying some report that's going to go on the shelf and never be seen again. This is a research and marketing tool we can start using immediately once we get it.

We're not buying outright like Plato's. We're doing a 60/40 split.

Making habitat restoration part of public works projects is cheaper than eliminating the species and buying mitigation habitat at another location. With the San Pedro Project, for example, habitat restoration cost $3 million, but it would have cost $5-6 million (twice as much) to destroy the habitat and try to recreate it elsewhere.

Making a wise choice is like buying a sensible shoe: You don't have to do it all the time, but there are times when it makes sense. Families who talk about these basic principles end up on top financially.

Latch doesn't always make it a simple click-in operation to install a restraint. Before buying one, parents should be sure to try fitting it in the vehicle they plan to use it in, because not every restraint is going to fit in every vehicle.

Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

Many householders are guilty of buying new clothes in the sales which will never get worn.

Many people find applying for life assurance confusing and tend to put off buying decisions. We aim to make the process as quick and easy as possible with premiums amongst the cheapest available,

Several trends about online buying continue to develop -- especially regarding credit card security -- that could have major effects on the evolution of Internet commerce.

Sending people a check is a totally deceptive way to sell a product. If you want to sell a product, send a nice brochure explaining why it's a good deal. You shouldn't have to trick people into buying it.

Sensenbrenner has been tough and stuck to his guns on past occasions. Maybe buying time will help.

So far, the perceived gas price increases have not had any discernible impact on new-vehicle buying patterns, as least with regard to the size of the engine.

So many Americans are consuming by using their home equity. If you can't afford a standard mortgage, you probably shouldn't be buying a home.

So if I was buying into tobacco, I would acknowledge the sector is high risk. It is high risk and there's a lot of uncertainty but Philip Morris is the only one I'd be buying.

She used to be a race horse but she'd been abused. I had no intention of buying a horse that old, but when we saw her, we just fell in love with her.

Some buying to match the index change may provide underlying support for bonds.

Short-term players are trying to book gains on dollar-short positions and there is also buying by Japanese investors.

Shorter-term momentum traders are taking their profits right now, and longer-term investors are sitting on cash waiting for a better buying opportunity. The problem is, to get a better buying opportunity, prices have to drop lower.

Shopping online can be safe if the site you are buying from is a secure site. Consumers need to know how to evaluate the security of e-commerce Web sites before buying something online.