Because the markets were already nervous due to the Asian financial crisis, investors began selling non-U. S. treasury debt and buying U. S. treasuries, which were considered a safe investment.

After selling off some of his Connecticut properties, he began buying wild lands further north in the territory, which he sold at a profit as the southern settlements grew and people began to move further north.

In the Southeast, a few Native American tribes began to adopt a slavery system similar to that of the American colonists, buying African American slaves, especially the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek.

To undermine the resistance, however, and before the Eritrean reinforcement could arrive, De Vecchi began to instill distrust among the local people by buying the loyalty of some of them.

Always eager for more knowledge, Jefferson immediately began buying more books and continued learning throughout most of his life.

Thomas C. Durant who was building the cross-Iowa railroad ( the M & M ) was literally banking that the Omaha route would be chosen and began buying up land in Nebraska.

First he ran up the stock of his M & M Railroad while secretly buying stock in the depressed Cedar Rapids and Missouri Railroad ( CR & M ), then running up CR & M stock with new plans to connect the Union Pacific to it at which point he began buying back the M & M stock at depressed prices.

The government clamped down on the practice of buying equities based only on credit, but these policies began to ease.

The Reformation began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church, by priests who opposed what they perceived as false doctrines and ecclesiastic malpractice — especially the teaching and the sale of indulgences or the abuses thereof, and simony, the selling and buying of clerical offices — that the reformers saw as evidence of the systemic corruption of the Church's Roman hierarchy, which included the Pope.

Many cooperative grocery stores began as loosely organized buying clubs, and larger organizations such as United Natural Foods and the Weston A.

) The British Royal Navy began buying Bermuda sloops, beginning with an order for three sloops-of-war ( HMS Dasher, HMS Driver, and HMS Hunter, which were each of 200 tons, armed with twelve 24 pounders ) placed with Bermudian builders in 1795.

Quietly, Harriman began buying stock in Northern Pacific with the intention of gaining control of Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy.

He also began money-lending in 1388, preferring this to outward shows of wealth such as buying property.

French citizen Ferdinand Chevillard began buying and clearing land around Port Vila to be converted into the largest French plantation on the island.

This exposure brought recognition, and a number of wealthy collectors began buying his art.

For centuries largely made-up of European and American buyers, the international buying market for Chinese art has also began to be dominated by Chinese dealers and collectors in recent years.

In June 1978, Iraq began entering into friendlier relations with the Western world and buying French and Italian-made weapons, though the vast majority still came from the Soviet Union, its

Keith, agent of the Central Coal and Coke Company in Kansas City, Missouri, began buying virgin timber in the fall of 1899.

Recently the Federal government began buying land along the rivers for the new Waccamaw Wildlife Refuge, which is intended to protect such wild areas.

McDaniel began buying baby clothes and setting up a nursery.

The New South Wales Government began buying land around the foreshores in 1965, and the National Trust suggested a national park in 1968.

In 1973, his first year with the Padres, he began buying blocks of tickets to Padres games for families who couldn't afford to go to games, in a program known as " pavilions.

Finally, as time began to run out, he headed into Ormoc and glide-bombed a group of houses that Intelligence had thought might contain Japanese supplies.

As he talked about himself, time and again stuffing and dragging on his pipe, Steinberg began to relax and the initial hurried feeling grew faint and was dispelled.

A series of conferences with friends and bankers began about this time ; ;

Having done so, he began to experience all the frustrations of others who attempted to get along with Serenissimus and do a job at the same time.

It is high time the United States began to realize that the God-given rights of men set forth in that document are applicable today to Katanga.

Let them offer on behalf of those creatures whose melody has been the joy of mankind since time began, the hymn `` Abide With Me ''.

`` It's time you began to think on God, Stephen.

It was the first time any of us had laughed since the morning began.

It was evident that a second transfer had to be effected, and that it had to take place between the time the fille finished the doctor's room and the time she began Alex's.

About that time he began reading Mr. America and Muscle Builder and he learned of the famous Weider way to fast weight gaining.

The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).

`` From time to time since the present war began there have been reports that one or more of the Axis powers were seriously contemplating use of poisonous gas or noxious gases or other inhumane devices of warfare.

The share of the new housing market enjoyed by apartments, which began about six years ago, has more than tripled within that span of time.

For when he began to talk and dream all at the same time, making his plans as he went, she had begun dreaming too.

About this time people began `` dropping in '', considering that the newly married had been left alone long enough.

The International Time Bureau ( BIH ) began a time scale, T < sub > m </ sub > or AM, in July 1955, using both local caesium clocks and comparisons to distant clocks using the phase of VLF radio signals.

At that time, some of the East Coast movie makers began to spend winters in California where the climate allowed them to continue productions requiring warm weather.

At about the same time, in the colonies which remained linked to the crown, the Church of England began to appoint colonial bishops.

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The letter of Auxentius, a 4th-century Arian bishop of Milan, regarding the missionary Ulfilas, gives the clearest picture of Arian beliefs on the nature of the Trinity: God the Father (" unbegotten "), always existing, was separate from the lesser Jesus Christ (" only-begotten "), born before time began and creator of the world.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

During this time Thomas Aquinas began to study under Albertus.