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purchasing and Louisiana
Jefferson disliked the idea of purchasing Louisiana from France, as that could imply that France had a right to be in Louisiana.
In the late 1820s, the family moved to a plantation near Baton Rouge, as her father was purchasing land in Louisiana.
( Although Jefferson made a point of seeking a balanced budget during the early years of his administration, he seems to have later reversed himself in purchasing the Louisiana Territory.
He expanded his domain of radio stations, purchasing WTIX-AM in New Orleans, Louisiana, gradually converted his stations to an all-hits format, and pioneered the practice of surveying record stores to determine which singles were popular each week.
Storz expanded his stable of radio stations in 1953, purchasing WTIX in New Orleans, Louisiana, gradually converted his stations to an all-hits format, and pioneered the practice of surveying record stores to determine which singles were popular each week.

purchasing and Jefferson
President Thomas Jefferson inquired about purchasing an area near the mouth of the river to ensure that it would stay open to American goods.
In 1835, Moseley and his family moved to Lake Miccosukee in Jefferson County, Florida, after purchasing a plantation there.
The Library was replenished by purchasing the collection of former President Thomas Jefferson and Watterston organized it based on Jefferson's basic classification scheme.
While they are collecting the keys to the cabin from Mr. Jefferson they meet Mr. Hanleigh who is interested in purchasing the island.

purchasing and had
On his return flight to Dallas, Hunt conceived the idea of an entirely new league and decided to contact the others who had shown interest in purchasing the Cardinals.
Several years later, Purcell would give the Herald a suburban presence it never had by purchasing the money-losing Community Newspaper Company from Fidelity Investments.
The first Europeans to reach the Bandas, the expedition remained in Banda for about one month, purchasing and filling their ships with Banda's nutmeg and mace, and with cloves in which Banda had a thriving entrepôt trade.
Parkinson had spent less than any other manager on purchasing players since Lennie Lawrence in the 1980s and was able to maintain a top six status despite only having the opportunity to bring in lower level players on loan.
In 1905, Zemurray had started buying his own plantations and in 1910, after purchasing of plantation land in Honduras, formed his own company, the Cuyamel Fruit Company.
Before the sale was announced, Anthony Bamford, chairman of British excavators manufacturer JCB, had expressed interest in purchasing Jaguar Cars in August, the year previously ; only to back out when told the sale would also involve Land Rover, which he did not wish to buy.
Previously, McDaniels had been more focused on athletics than music, but soon began to DJ after purchasing a set of turntables.
Saudi Arabia repaid the debt it owed the countries whose forces had defeated Iraq, particularly the United States, in cash ( for example, $ 15 billion to the US alone ) and by purchasing large quantities of weapons from American companies and by supporting the U. S .- led peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.
It had learned from the Iranian experiences with having a single supplier for its military and has diversified its arms purchases, purchasing weaponry mainly from Russia, the United States, the UK, Ukraine, France and Germany.
Consumers also had no interest in purchasing sequels to the earlier 3DO games that disappointed them, and the pricing of 3DO software forced 3DO supporters to eventually flock to Sony's PlayStation for next-gen video gaming.
ABC had even expressed interest as far back as 1949, purchasing exclusive rights to 30 of the trio's shorts.
In 2009, at purchasing power parity, Bucharest had a per-capita GDP of € 26, 100, or 111 % that of the European Union average and more than twice the Romanian average.
He had helped Dalí emerge into the art world by purchasing many works and by supporting him financially for two years.
It is traced to below-market-cost corn meal residents had been purchasing to avoid the high cost of the local mill.
Portrait of Wally, a 1912 portrait, was purchased by Rudolf Leopold in 1954 and became part of the collection of the Leopold Museum when it was established by the Austrian government, purchasing more than 5, 000 pieces that Leopold had owned.
In the past, the country's economic policy had been defined by the Employment Act of 1946, which encouraged the federal government to pursue " maximum employment, production, and purchasing power " through cooperation with private enterprise.
Prior to 1915, purchasing associations had formed in at least 10 major cities in the country, including one of the earliest and most active groups in Buffalo, NY, founded in 1904, and the New York Association, formed in 1913, which eventually became the nucleus of the national organization.
Upon his return, Bonaparte expressed fury at Joséphine for purchasing such an expensive house with the money she had expected him to bring back from the Egyptian campaign.
When informed that the Motion Picture Editors Guild required an editor credit, he suggested Donn Cambern who had been editing another film, Drive, He Said ( 1971 ) in the next office and had helped Bogdanovich with some purchasing paperwork concerning the film's opticals.
In early May 2009, Jim Waldron, a Davison, Michigan, Pontiac dealer, announced that he was interested in purchasing the Pontiac brand and logos, and had found financing to purchase them as well as some soon-to-be shuttered GM plants in order to build cars.
Sugawara alleged that after four years of purchasing the product she had only recently discovered to her dismay that said " berries " were in fact simply brightly-colored cereal balls.

purchasing and adopt
Since the “ CSA is a system that works on trust and familiarity ” ( Kumar et al., 2011, p. 544 ), some people are hesitant to adopt this lifestyle of food purchasing.
The January 2011 issue of Trains later revealed that that Amtrak would scrap re-routing and Superliner conversion and instead adopt not only daily service, but also purchasing dome cars to be used along the Chicago-Washington, D. C. portion of the trip.
Adam Smith used some of Fleetwood's data in the Wealth of Nations ( 1776 ) at the end of Book I, chapter XI but he did not develop — or even adoptthe idea of comparing purchasing power at different dates.
On December 19, 2005, FPL Group, Inc. announced that it was purchasing Constellation Energy in a merger transaction valued at more than US $ 11 billion and that it would adopt " Constellation Energy " as its name for the post-merger entity.

purchasing and broad
A horizontal indirect spend GPO succeeds in reducing procurement costs by aggregating the demand for non-strategic, or indirect cost supplies and services used by a broad horizontal market spectrum of member client organizations by consolidating purchasing power and establishing contracts to achieve preferred pricing, terms, and service standards.
The game was notable for taking advantage of a broad mix of styles for the game: a town window which allowed purchasing in various shops, a top-down style dungeon crawl view, a top-down world map, and a separate combat window.

purchasing and construction
Rather than purchasing commercially available units, such groups sometimes advocate homebuilt antenna construction.
Because of World War I, construction was delayed, also there were difficulties purchasing the necessary land.
The town council authorized the purchasing of a fire engine and the construction of a fire house after the 1913 incorporation.
The NEP gave opportunities for the government to use engineers, specialists, and intelligentsia for cost accounting, equipment purchasing, efficiency procedures, railway construction, and industrial administration.
Work did not start until ten years later though, owing to various problems with purchasing the property and arguments between Wilhelm I, Otto von Bismarck, and the members of the Reichstag about how the construction should be performed.
Committees help in assessing the suitability of a possible construction site, purchasing the land and materials and coordinating the efforts of volunteers from the wider area.
As disputes over the tunnel construction continued, Mirage Resorts announced they were given the options of purchasing the properties required for building the tunnel.
Between sessions the board of selectmen interprets the policy set at Town Meeting and is assigned numerous duties including: approving all town non-school expenditures, authorizing highway construction and repair, serving as town purchasing agent for non-school items, issuing licenses and overseeing the conduct of all town activities.
Since the Navy contemplated using the entire area available at Ford Island, plans for purchasing land adjacent to Pearl Harbor near Fort Kamehameha for construction of an airfield resulted in purchase by the U. S. Army on 20 February 1935 of this land from Faxon Bishop et al.
Immediately after the breakout of the Second World War, he was in charge of encouraging the construction of aircraft for the Allies in the United States and of purchasing planes for France.
* Off the plan, a method of purchasing or investing in a property before construction has started
However, to secure its trade lines and commercial interests in the spice trade, it felt the necessity of a port closer to the Malaccan Straits, and succeeded in purchasing a piece of coastal land, originally called Chennirayarpattinam or Channapatnam, from a Vijayanagar chieftain named Damerla Chennappa Nayaka based in Chandragiri, where the Company began the construction of a harbour and a fort.
However, construction did not start as promised, and rumors, later confirmed, circulated that developer Zeckendorf would take over the project by purchasing 20th's interest in the project for $ 53 million.
As a result, private funding was essential to the initial construction of the airport, particularly in purchasing the land.
In the early 1990s, the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority began to build the Veterans Expressway, but was depleted of funds, leading to Florida's Turnpike Enterprise purchasing the right of way using the existing design to complete construction of the expressway.
The scope of activity of the organization is very wide, from supporting ecological construction to endowing scholarships for students, purchasing computer hardware and medical equipment to the rebuilding of especially prized monuments.
In 1925, the state legislature granted the highway department the responsibility of surveying, planning and building highways, and the authorization to acquire new highway rights-of-way by purchasing, or condemning through Eminent Domain, land required for highway construction.
Wolff asked the city of Oakland to acquire the land for the stadium by either providing public land or purchasing private land while he and other private developers would cover the cost of construction.
Any service west of King of Prussia would require new construction and the purchasing of extra push-pull consists hauled by hybrid locomotives.
The approval meant that TriMet could begin purchasing right-of-way and some construction materials.

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