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Securing a licence to clear rainforest is often easier than buying up and consolidating smallholdings.

It has been cited by federal authorities for trying to avoid the publicity of a recall by quietly buying up tainted products.

Developers trying to combat this are buying up large areas with low-cost housing in an attempt to beautify the area around new construction.

But this narrow approach is generally no more helpful in establishing lasting growth than simply buying up a smaller competitor might be.

Wouldn't it have been a lot cheaper for Moscow to open an Amazon account and start buying up memoirs written by former CIA operatives?

But these days, foreigners are buying up apartments and houses, heavily investing money here, and trying to build actual lives here.

All sort of arrivistes from every walk of life joined the party, buying up sheep farms to plant vines.

Wang and his cohorts say China needs to beef up its Navy if it continues buying up natural resources everywhere from Australia to Africa.

Fortunately , Ms Guo passed her test , and the company began buying up land in her name .

The yen hovers at a 15-year high despite efforts by the Bank of Japan to weaken it by buying up dollars.

But it could exercise a negative form of dominance, either through its exchange rate policy or by buying up commodities [to corner markets].

He said shoppers were buying up salt amid concerns of a local shortage due to the demand in China.

The Bank of Japan has also been buying up all of its bonds owned by non-Japanese.

Out of desperation, city engineers began buying up land and water rights in the Owens Valley, east of the Sierra Nevada.

According to one person who has read the drafts, the new policies will include buying up to 50% of the reduction from abroad.

But to engage in market-making, a bank must take on a certain amount of risk by buying up and selling securities.

the act of taking control of a company by buying up enough of its stock t gain a controlling interest.

The United States has accused China of keeping its currency, the yuan, undervalued by buying up large reserves of foreign currencies.

Such owners, he claimed, were buying up the media to exert political influence, not in search of profit.

Enter Glenn A. Little, a Texas entrepreneur who specialized in buying up defunct companies and selling them in reverse mergers.

Central banks have been buying up government debt, helping to keep interest costs low in the U. S and U. K.

And the state would keep buying up the surplus, effectively offering to use its huge dollar reserves to bail out local firms.

People had been buying up the torches and candles because of the predicted strike by electricity workers.

Buying up gilts in a market where no new securities are being issued could distort interest rates in unpredictable ways, economists warned.

When it comes to buying up America, China is in the little league with New Zealand and Austria.

They hoped to make profits of $7m a time by buying up what they called "bloody cheap" cargoes of sulphur-contaminated Mexican gasoline.

Restaurants and consumers in the U. S. followed suit last week and started buying up their own future rice requirements.

Butter and cheese producers have been buying up available stocks of milk, sending the futures market to an all-time high this month.

Set out to start own business, buying up low-producing gold mine shafts and turning them profitable.

It consists of the feds buying up to 80 percent of all the Mexican cartels.

However, recent developments show the story is not limited to US exchanges buying up foreign counterparts.

Chinese companies have been quietly buying up sources of commodities that will be needed to fuel the country's economic growth.

Few economists actually like the idea of the government buying up banks and running them.

Perceptions about China s plans to take over the world by buying up strategic assets are, similarly, overly hyperbolic.

Millions of Chinese have been buying up homes with the same enthusiasm once common among U. S. home buyers.

Cadbury became the world's largest confectionery company in 2003 after buying up a number of gum brands, including Trident and Stride.

He was secretly buying up shares of the company, planning to take it over at one fell swoop.

Attempting to right the financial ship, London, Berlin and now even Washington are buying up stakes in financial institutions.

Ordinary Vietnamese have responded by buying up dollars and hoarding gold, or speculating on land in the hope of retaining their savings.

China, according to the panglossian scenario, will save the world by buying up all the goods cash-strapped Americans can no longer afford.

This leads me to believe the Fed has been busy buying up all of the toxic assets held by banks.

Lawmakers could, of course, decide that there are other ways than buying up mortgages to unclog credit in financial markets.

SIA has been in talks for more than a year about buying up to 25 per cent of CEA.

Private equity is also well aware that wealthy emerging markets investors are buying up more of the West's old industries.

Even before last week's selloff in risky assets, investors worried about slowing growth were buying up Treasury debt.

Porsche has run up a debt of over 9 billion euros in buying up VW stock in its attempted takeover.

On the asset side, QE works through the buying up of private-sector and government instruments.

I think the Chinese are much more interested in, after a Greek default, coming in and bottom feeding and buying up all sorts of assets.

Developers are buying up all the land on the island.

Beijing pronounced 2006 'The Year of Africa' and began buying up resources there.

Li joked that Americans and Europeans should be more concerned about Chinese visitors buying up prime real estate.

Chinese are also buying up real estate around the world.

Companies have also been buying up francs to pay two months of salary before the uncertain election period.

Nervous investors are buying up Treasurys, sending interest rates lower.

Who's buying up all this land?

PetroChina and Sinopec have both been buying up many of those refiners to sustain fuel production.

While they tell me to budget my money and shop wisely, they are buying up every doll and dump truck in sight.

People are buying up gold faster than milk, bread and toilet paper before a Washington blizzard.

Japanese gained momentum when investors from Tokyo were buying up U. S. real estate.

Investors have been buying up fertile soil on the world's poorest continent.

Like most folks, we understand that China keeps its currency weak by buying up dollars.

Many young Abkhaz also feel concerned about the Russian elite buying up their proud, small state.

Finally, after buying up bonds, what is the next move?

is buying up enormous amounts of virgin digital land in Africa at virtually no cost.

There have been problems in the past of touts buying up iPhones to resell at higher prices.

Then I wouldn't have lost so much money buying up land there, hah.

Now, the search is on to find out if other countries are buying up North Korean technology or, worse yet, bomb fuel.

Meanwhile, the ECB has still been quietly buying up Italian debt.

However, many argue that fears over the Chinese buying up arable land are overblown.

French firms are buying up companies across Europe.

Suppose China stopped buying up US government debt.

Gazprom has been buying up oil and gas companies across eastern Europe and Asia.

China, in turn, has been busy buying up European companies and seaports.

I don't know if Americans are prepared for the Chinese coming in buying up today's equivalent of Pebble Beach.

China is rapidly buying up Africa's oil, metals and farm produce. That fuels China's surging economic growth, but how good is it for Africa?

some Cubans say there is less bread in the shops since private pizza-makers started buying up flour.

This elite is "pre-emptively buying up everything in sight" .

Shiuhung, so what about foreigners buying up all our farms? That's ok then?

The first is that foreigners are buying up Britain's most famous firms, and weak sterling may exacerbate the trend.

Ban-gladesh's politicians have been buying up bullet-proof vests in recent weeks, according to Banla Patrika, a Bengli-language newspaper.

It is said that someone is buying up our stock.

A lot of private investors are buying up land around here.

The Chinese are buying up millions of hectares of Africa to grow food, he notes.

They have taken over our firm by buying up shares.

The Federal Reserve is buying up all kinds of other assets, like long-term government bonds.

Instead, he is buying up another 500 acres of pecan orchards.

India has been buying up oil and mineral concessions in countries such as Sudan and Nigeria.

Go to a fund that is buying up foreclosed homes in Las Vegas.

Some investors had already begun buying up Hong Kong shares in anticipation of the incoming liquidity flood.

I remember vividly people going to the local supermarkets and buying up all kinds of canned goods and throwing them back in their cars

On Several Problems about Managerial Personnel Buying Up an Enterprise

quietly buying up small firms, and small stakes in larger companies

he is buying up shares in general motors