The BCRA continues to intervene in the exchange market, usually buying dollars, though occasionally selling small amounts ( for example, reacting to rumors of a possible increase of the Federal Reserve's reference rate, which caused a minor spike in the dollar's value ).

The BCRA was a mixed bag for those who wanted to remove big money from politics.

There was often competition between the BCRA and the different British intelligence services to produce the most valuable information from their Résistance networks in France.

The various Résistance movements in France had to understand the value of intelligence networks in order to be recognised or receive subsidies from the BCRA or the British.

The DGSE can trace its roots back to 1947, when a central external intelligence agency, known as the SDECE, was founded to combine under one head a variety of separate agencies – some, such as the Deuxième Bureau, dating from the time of Napoleon III and some, such as the BCRA, from the Free French of World War II.

On July 5, 2007, in Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc., the Supreme Court ruled that the organizations engaged in genuine discussion of issues were entitled to a broad, " as applied " exemption from the electioneering communications provisions of BCRA ( those portions of BCRA that limited advertising that named a particular candidate by name within 30 days of a primary election and 60 days of a general election, if the ad was paid for by a corporation or union ).

The Supreme Court struck down a provision of the BCRA that prohibited all corporations and unions from broadcasting “ electioneering communications .” Electioneering communications differ from independent expenditures in that independent expenditures are required to disclose whether a group explicitly supports or opposes a candidate for office, while an electioneering communication does not make that requirement of the organization.

Proponents of the Stand By Your Ad provision, such as Senator Ron Wyden ( D-Oregon ) who sponsored the provision in the BCRA, advocate that by forcing candidates to associate themselves with their attacks in the ads, voters would be more inclined to punish them for using such a strategy, thus discouraging candidates from campaigning in such a manner.

From 1944 to 1945 long-range B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft attached to Force 136 dropped 40 " Jedburgh " commandos from the French intelligence service BCRA, and agents from the Corps Léger d ' Intervention also known as " Gaur ", commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Huard, into Indochina.

The payment was effected on January 3, 2006, employing about US $ 9. 8 billion from BCRA reserves.

During the years of Cavallo's Convertibility Law, which established a 1: 1 fixed exchange rate between the Argentine peso and the United States dollar on April 1, 1991, the BCRA was mainly in charge of keeping foreign currency reserves in synch with the monetary base.

The BCRA obtained exceptionally high returns on investment funded by its reserves, for a total of US $ 1. 4 billion USD ( a yearly rate of 5. 7 %) in 2006.

The Court held that easing BCRA restrictions for an opponent of a self-financing candidate spending at least $ 350, 000 of his own money violated the freedom of speech of the self-financing candidate.

* Justice Kennedy, joined by the Chief Justice, issued a 68-page dissenting opinion and appendix, noting that BCRA forces " speakers to abandon their own preference for speaking through parties and organizations.

The " Stand By Your Ad " provision ( SBYA ) of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act ( BCRA, also known as " McCain-Feingold "), enacted in 2002, requires candidates in the United States for federal political office, as well as interest groups and political parties supporting or opposing a candidate, to include in political advertisements on television and radio " a statement by the candidate that identifies the candidate and states that the candidate has approved the communication.

He captured the 1946 BCRA championship for Jack London.

He won the 1947 and 1948 BCRA championships for George Bignotti.

In Davis v. Federal Election Commission, 554 U. S. 724 ( 2008 ), the Supreme Court declared the " Millionaire's Amendment " provisions of the BCRA to be unconstitutional.

The Court also overruled the portion of McConnell that upheld such restrictions under the BCRA.

These specific election donations are known as ‘ hard money .’ The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act ( BCRA ) of 2002, also known as " McCain-Feingold ", after its sponsors, is the most recent major federal law on campaign finance, which revised some of the legal limits on expenditures set in 1974, and prohibited unregulated contributions ( commonly referred to as " soft money ") to national political parties.

The Congress passed the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act ( BCRA ), also called the McCain-Feingold bill after its chief sponsors, John McCain and Russ Feingold.

Justice Kennedy's majority opinion found that the BCRA § 203 prohibition of all independent expenditures by corporations and unions violated the First Amendment's protection of free speech.

The American Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) also began to send its own agents to France in cooperation with the SOE and the French BCRA agents in Operation Jedburgh.

The spy network was called the Bureau Central de Renseignements et d ' Action ( BCRA ), and its actions were carried out by volunteers who were parachuted into France to create and nourish local Résistance cells.

There, in November 1940, he organized one of the most active and important Résistance networks of the BCRA, the Confrérie de Notre Dame ( Brotherhood of Our Lady ), which provided the Allies with photographs, maps, and important information on the German defenses known as the Atlantic Wall.

From 1941 on, networks such as these allowed the BCRA to send armed parachutists, weapons, and radio equipment into France to carry out missions.

Another important BCRA operative, Henri Honoré d ' Estienne d ' Orves, a naval officer, developed a network of twenty-six people in France.

Christian Pineau, one of the founders of the Libération Nord movement also had BCRA roots.

During his trip to London in April 1942, Pineau was assigned by BCRA the task of creating two new intelligence systems, one called Phalanx, and the other called Cohors-Asturies.

Later in 1943, the BCRA and the United Movements of Résistance merged their intelligence networks.

Another BCRA appendage was called Gallia, an intelligence network specializing in military intelligence and police activities.

Its importance increased throughout the second half of 1943 and into the spring of 1944, until it became the largest BCRA network in the Vichy zone, employing about 2500 sources, contacts, couriers, and analysts.

By 1944, the BCRA was receiving 1, 000 telegrams by radio every day and 2, 000 plans every week.

Citizens United was the plaintiff in a Supreme Court case which began as a challenge to various statutory provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 ( BCRA ), known as the " McCain-Feingold " law.

The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 ( BCRA, McCain – Feingold Act,, ) is a United States federal law that amended the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, which regulates the financing of political campaigns.

Local libraries find, too, that the new plan saves tax dollars because books can be bought through the system, and since the system buys in bulk it is able to obtain larger discounts than would be available to an individual library.

The fight generated 1. 25 million buys and 70 million dollars in domestic pay-per-view revenue, making it the most watched boxing event of 2009.

Back at his office, Alan contacts Russian President Boris Yeltsin and buys ( for the sum of six American dollars ) the cryonically-preserved penis of Adolf Hitler.

When necessary, the Central Bank emits pesos and buys dollars in the free market ( sometimes large amounts, in the order of 10 to 100 million USD per day ) to keep the dollar price from dropping, and had amassed over 27, 000 million USD in reserves before the 9, 810 million USD payment to the IMF in January 2006.

In the play, Macbeth buys off the Danes with a " great summe of gold ", and told the Danes they could bury their dead there for " ten thousand dollars ".

;" The Jar ": A poor farmer buys a jar with something floating in it for twelve dollars and it soon becomes the conversation piece of the town.

* Edward Herbert Thompson buys the ruins of Chichen Itza for 75 United States dollars

At an auction, Peter buys an antique vase for " 100 million dollars " while making a characteristic " Dr.