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  • In this case, however, the puts were all sold and the calls bought.

    Big Trade in CVS Draws Focus 2007

  • The Minister wrote on Twitter that "just for the record, my staff and I have nothing to do with the book purchases by the Ministry of External Affairs" and that he was "completely unaware" of his books being among the titles bought.

    DWS Full News Feed Politico 2010

  • The Minister wrote on Twitter that "just for the record, my staff and I have nothing to do with the book purchases by the Ministry of External Affairs" and that he was "completely unaware" of his books being among the titles bought.

    DWS Full News Feed 2010

  • The Minister wrote on Twitter that "just for the record, my staff and I have nothing to do with the book purchases by the Ministry of External Affairs" and that he was "completely unaware" of his books being among the titles bought.

    DWS Full News Feed 2010

  • The Minister wrote on Twitter that "just for the record, my staff and I have nothing to do with the book purchases by the Ministry of External Affairs" and that he was "completely unaware" of his books being among the titles bought.

    DWS Full News Feed 2010

  • The Minister wrote on Twitter that "just for the record, my staff and I have nothing to do with the book purchases by the Ministry of External Affairs" and that he was "completely unaware" of his books being among the titles bought.

    DWS Full News Feed Politico 2010

  • The GOP is completely in the pocket of the health insurance companies – they have a lot of nerve talking about people's votes being "bought."

    RNC targets centrist Democrats 2009

  • * But Lincoln keeps tarring Halter as a tool of organized labor, and says Arkansans should vote for her to prove they can't be "bought."

    Sunday Roundup 2010

  • The absence of that transparency has led to deep mistrust of Congress, when the public only learns about it months later and concludes that legislation was "bought."

    Michael Klein: Real Time Online Transparency 2009

  • To anyone outside the severely over-spun world of politics, that doesn't constitute "bought."

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

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