purchase+and+sale
61Irish Land and Labour Association — The Irish Land and Labour Association (ILLA) was a progressive movement founded in the early 1890s in Munster, Ireland, to organise and pursue political agitation for small tenant farmers and rural labourers rights. Its branches also spread into… …
62Alaska Purchase — 1. purchase of the territory of Alaska by the U.S. from Russia in 1867 for $7,200,000. Cf. Seward s Folly. 2. the territory itself. * * * Acquisition in 1867 by the U.S. from Russia of 586,412 sq mi (1.5 million sq km) at the northwestern tip of… …
63hire purchase — HP A method of buying goods in which the purchaser takes possession of them as soon as an initial instalment of the price (a deposit) has been paid and obtains ownership of the goods when all the agreed number of subsequent instalments have been… …
64Tate's purchase of The Upper Room — The Upper Room is an installation of 13 paintings of rhesus macaque monkeys by English artist Chris Ofili in a specially designed room. It was bought by the Tate gallery in 2005 from the Victoria Miro Gallery and was the cause of a media furore,O …
65hire purchase — HP A method of buying goods in which the purchaser takes possession of them as soon as an initial instalment of the price (a deposit) has been paid; ownership is obtained when all the agreed number of subsequent instalments have been completed. A …
66Alaska purchase — The Alaska Purchase (otherwise known as Seward s Folly or Seward s Icebox) by the United States from the Russian Empire occurred in 1867 at the behest of Secretary of State William Seward. The territory purchased was 586,412 square miles… …
67Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service — Defense Reutilization and Marketing ServiceAlso know as Defense Reutiliztation and Marketing Office DRMO DRMO Spoken as Durr Mo . History A congressional report in 1972 recommended centralizing the disposal of DOD property for better… …
68Interest rate cap and floor — Interest rate c An interest rate cap is a derivative in which the buyer receives payments at the end of each period in which the interest rate exceeds the agreed strike price. An example of a cap would be an agreement to receive a payment for… …
69Arriva North West and Wales — Infobox Bus transit name = Arriva North West and Wales logo size = image size = image caption = A VDL / Wright Pulsar in Llandudno company slogan = parent = Arriva founded = 2002 headquarters = Aintree locale = North West service area =… …
70Whitby and Pickering Railway — The Whitby and Pickering Railway was built as the culmination of attempts to halt the gradual decline of the port of Whitby on the east coast of the United Kingdom. The basic industries of Whitby, whaling and shipbuilding, had been in decline for …
