When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

They had bought their house in Catatonia after investigating all the regions of suburbia surrounding New York ; ;

F. Morris Cochran, university vice president and business manager, said the house has been bought to provide rental housing for faculty families, particularly for those here for a limited time.

John sold the big old place in Sewickley and bought a smaller house in Fox Chapel.

In 1844, the couple bought a house in Springfield near Lincoln's law office.

One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward, Gaudí, at Güell's suggestion, bought it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906.

The nucleus of the estate was a small farm of, called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty ( i. e., muddy ) Hole, and was bought by Scott on the lapse of his lease ( 1811 ) of the neighbouring house of Ashestiel.

Although as a result Aston Martin had to make 60 members of the workforce redundant, Gauntlett bought a stake in Italian styling house Zagato, and resurrected its collaboration with Aston Martin.

Brigitte BardotIn May 1958, Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France where she had bought the house La Madrague in Saint-Tropez.

She restored and preserved the farms that she bought or managed, making sure that each farm house had in it a piece of antique Lakeland furniture.

The red-brick semi-detached house at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, in which Thomas was born and lived until he was 19, had been bought by his parents in the respectable area of the Uplands a few months before his birth.

A futures contract differs from a forward contract in that the futures contract is a standardized contract written by a clearing house that operates an exchange where the contract can be bought and sold ; the forward contract is a non-standardized contract written by the parties themselves.

His financial situation improved considerably and in 1897, Munch bought himself a summer house, a small fisherman's cabin built in the late 18th century, in the small town of Åsgårdstrand in Norway.

The city of Oslo bought the Ekely estate from his heirs in 1946 and demolished his house in May 1960.

The building, at the northeast corner of Broadway and 112th Street, was originally an apartment house but was converted to research space after Columbia bought it.

About 1749, the family bought a house in the city of Zaragoza and some years later moved into it.

In 1819, with the idea of isolating himself, he bought a country house by the Manzanares river just outside of Madrid.

In later life Goya bought a house, called Quinta del Sordo (" Deaf Man's House "), and painted many unusual paintings on canvas and on the walls, including references to witchcraft and war.

They alighted out of the coach and went into a poor woman's house at the bottom of Highgate hill, and bought a fowl, and made the woman exenterate it ".

After the Nazis seized power the family moved first to Möhlstrasse in Munich, and in 1934 to Lake Tegern, where they bought a house.

Lewis bought a small house and dug a swimming pool, prompting Whale to have his own pool dug, although he did not himself swim in it.

The Wimseys honeymoon at Talboys, a house in east Hertfordshire near where Harriet had lived as a child, that Peter has bought for her as a wedding present.

The young couple bought a house by the Neva River.

He recently bought a 18 million EUR house on Martha's Vineyard.

Howard's father bought a house in the town with a cash down payment and made extensive renovations.

For example the People's Bank of China and the Bank of Japan have on occasion bought several hundred billions of U. S. Treasuries, presumably in order to stop the decline of the U. S. dollar versus the renminbi and the yen.

In 2008, Lehman filed for bankruptcy, Bear Stearns was bought up by JP Morgan Chase with blessing by the U. S. government, and Merrill Lynch was bought up by Bank of America.

Some " old guard " firms such as Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch ( bought by Bank of America in 2009 ), have remained " fiercely loyal to the financial district " location, and new ones such as Deutsche Bank have chosen office space in the district.

He began depositing the money in the Hanover Trust Bank of Boston ( a small bank on Hanover Street in the mostly Italian North End ), in the hope that once his account was large enough he could impose his will on the bank or even be made its president ; he bought a controlling interest in the bank through himself and several friends after depositing $ 3 million.

The restrictive monetary policy of the 1990s has become aggressively expansive ; the Central Bank has injected large amounts of cash into the economy and bought dollars from the free currency market in order to accumulate reserves.

On November 15, BCCI, Abedi and Naqvi were indicted on federal charges that it had illegally bought control of another American bank, Independence Bank of Los Angeles, using Saudi businessman Ghaith Pharaon as the puppet owner.

Earlier, Pharaon was revealed to have been the puppet owner of National Bank of Georgia, a bank formerly owned by Lance before being sold back to First American ( it had previously been an FGB subsidiary before Lance bought it ).

Mahmud Karzai bought one such villa from Farnood for 7 million dirhams using money borrowed from Kabul Bank and in a matter of months sold it for 10. 4 million dirhams.

In 2010, the paper cited its local focus as a reason for running its first-ever front page advertisement: the Capital One ad was being run to draw attention to the rebranding of Chevy Chase Bank, a bank Capital One bought in 2009.

The highly generous pay packages include $ 172 million for Merril Lynch & Co. CEO Stanley O ' Neal from 2003 to 2007, before it was bought by Bank of America in 2008, and $ 161 million for Bear Stearns Co .' s James Cayne before the bank collapsed and was sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co. in June of 2008.

** The Birmingham Municipal Bank, the first municipal bank in the country, later Lloyds TSB, then bought by the council for redevelopment

In 1987 the Saudi investor Abdullah Taha Bakhsh bought most of Union Bank of Switzerland's shares in Harken becoming its third largest investor owning 17 % of the company.

* 1994: Popular bought Pioneer Bank in Chicago and merged it with Popular's existing operations.

* 1996: Popular bought American Midwest Bank for its two branches in suburban Melrose Park, a Chicago suburb that was drawing Hispanics.

In California, Popular created a subsidiary, Banco Popular NA ( California ), bought Commerce National Bank, and transferred to it the branch that it had established in 1975.

* 1999: Popular bought First State Bank of Southern California from Korea's Hanil Bank and merged it with Popular ( California ).

In the Chicago area, Popular bought Irving Bank, Water Tower Bank and Aurora National Bank.

Popular also bought Banco Popular, a start-up bank in Orlando, Florida, and Citizens Bank in Houston, Texas.