1.   When Jim arrived home from work, Della told Jim what she had done to buy his Christmas present.

2.   Never bought myself any did I.

3.   Indeed, one online brokerage firm, Ameritrade, reports that its customers have been doing more buying than selling over the stretch.

4.   It costs more to produce to power at Oyster Creek than it does to buy excess generation from other producers, GPU said.

5.   It was a sweltering July afternoon and Bob Baffert thought he was done buying horses.

6.   Short covering by investors who had bet that Treasury prices would fall also bolstered the market, he said, as did buying of longer maturities by hedge funds.

7.   The Republicans have suggested that that was done to buy her silence.

8.   Trading volume was light, suggesting that many on Wall Street remain reluctant to do much buying.