Even pedal bicycles, as well as homemade boomboxes have utilized sealed lead-acid batteries ( or 12V power supplies ) for applications outside of motor vehicle use, likewise the store displays which mount in demo models prior to aftermarket purchases for installation.

The use of female models in such roles is believed to attract the attention of potential male customers ; however, ironically, research shows that most major purchases are made by women.

Yet, lottery purchases can be explained by decision models based on expected utility maximization, as the curvature of the utility function can be adjusted to capture risk-seeking behavior.

* October – Cuban National Railways purchases its first six-axle GE diesel locomotives ( mostly GE C30-7 models ) secondhand from Mexican railroads.

The model engineer usually purchases commercially available drawings which are used as reference to make the models.

Some, like NYC, have enlarged the mandatory market to include more and more taxis, and then all livery cars ( or Town Cars ), while at the same time, begrudgingly, shrunk the market for partition purchases for use in the " medallion " taxis, because newer vehicle models have side-impact airbags which cannot deploy properly with a partition installed.

The additional small quantity purchases by the Navy as well as all sporting models fall into the 10000-15000 serial range, purchased between the two major contracts.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

The principle of `` bills only '', or `` bills preferably '', seems so strongly accepted by the Federal Reserve that it is difficult to envision conditions which would persuade the authorities to depart radically from it by extending their open market purchases regularly into long-term Government securities.

Maris purchases $100 suits from Simpson's in New York.

* 1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $ 15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.

For example, if one purchases many risky bonds, then hedges them with CDSes, profiting from the difference between the bond spread and the CDS premium, in a financial crisis the bonds may default and the CDS writer / seller may itself fail, due to the stress of the crisis, causing the arbitrageur to face steep losses.

Gifts and purchases from Henry Salt, British Consul General in Egypt, beginning with the Colossal bust of Ramesses II in 1818, laid the foundations of the collection of Egyptian Monumental Sculpture.

One section states that if a man purchases a cow that is found to be pregnant, then he is the owner both of the cow and the calf that is born from it.

Early purchases of the company included about of land from Edward Burling and his partners ; land was sold at a profit to Thomas Chittenden among others, and the settlements on the company's land have grown to become the city of Burlington.

Finland's 1994 decision to buy 64 F-18 Hornet fighter planes from the United States signalled the abandonment of the country's policy of balanced arms purchases from Communist countries and Western countries.

The Hittites are usually depicted as a people living among the Israelites — Abraham purchases the Patriarchal burial-plot of Machpelah from " Ephron HaChiti ", Ephron the Hittite, and Hittites serve as high military officers in David's army.

The Mandate permitted the Jewish Agency to oversee Jewish immigration into Palestine and land purchases from the local Arabs.

Section 16 ( b ) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 prohibits short-swing profits ( from any purchases and sales within any six month period ) made by corporate directors, officers, or stockholders owning more than 10 % of a firm ’ s shares.

Even though in general, ordinary relations between directors and shareholders in a business corporation are not of such a fiduciary nature as to make it the duty of a director to disclose to a shareholder the general knowledge which he may possess regarding the value of the shares of the company before he purchases any from a shareholder, yet there are cases where, by reason of the special facts, such duty exists.

For example, a commodity broker can be charged with fraud if he or she receives a large purchase order from a client ( one likely to affect the price of that commodity ) and then purchases that commodity before executing the client's order in order to benefit from the anticipated price increase.

Hongkong Land became a Group subsidiary for the first time following a multi-year programme of steady open market purchases while Jardine Pacific raised its interest in Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited from 25 % to 42 %.

Kuwait's postwar equipment orders include 200 M-84 tanks ( from Yugoslavia to offset previous Yugoslav oil purchases ) and eighteen self-propelled 155mm guns from France.

The origins of the collection were the 8, 600 works in the Royal Collection ( Cabinet du Roi ), which were increased via state appropriation, purchases such as the 1, 200 works from Fillipo Baldinucci's collection in 1806, and donations.

In his view, the US acquired the lands slowly throughout the nineteenth century by purchases from individual Native American tribes and by wars against them.

However, the Lebanese army is trying to rearm and modernize itself through new aids and purchases from different countries such as the United States, Belgium, Russia, and The Netherlands.

Attention was also focused on the Air Force, with the pre-coup strength of 400 personnel and ten Northrop F-5 ' Freedom Fighter ' jet fighters planned to be supplemented with large-scale purchases of Mirage III fighters from France.

Libya's relationship with the former Soviet Union involved massive Libyan arms purchases from the Soviet bloc and the presence of thousands of east bloc advisers.

Of the cart types not animal-drawn, perhaps the most common example today is the shopping cart ( British English: shopping trolley ), which has also come to have a metaphorical meaning in relation to online purchases ( here, British English uses the metaphor of the shopping basket ).

A customer purchases goods ; a consumer uses them.

In this form a person purchases penny stocks in advance and then uses compromised brokerage accounts to purchase large quantities of that stock.

The consumer purchases flour, eggs, and sugar and then uses some labor and time in consuming to produce a cake.

Straw purchases are legal except in cases where the ultimate receiver of goods or services uses those goods or services in the commission of a crime.

Through EBT, a recipient uses his / her EBT card to make purchases at participating retailers.

The company uses sales profits to increase purchases from artisan partners and to expand its domestic distribution channels.

In retaliation for this misinformation, and for Soong's earlier betrayal, Billy purchases grenades on the black market and uses them to blow up the heroin factory.

If Y is national income ( GDP ), then the three uses of C consumption, I investment, and G government purchases can be expressed as:

Bart purchases a miniature spy camera from a mail-order catalog and uses it to take candid photos around the house.

: T-Mobile uses clickwrap for online phone purchases

Which handset the user purchases decides what type of network the service uses and thus the coverage map.

Introduced in 1999, the brand uses the " razor-and-blades business model "; in this case, the consumer purchases the handle assembly at a low price, but must continue to purchase replacement refills and pads over the life of the product.