1.   In some cases, speculators bought companies cheaply and then sent their profit out of the country.

2.   Now communities fear that these next plots will be bought by speculators who will convert flower beds into parking lots or dumps.

3.   Speculators typically buy call options on a bet the stock will rise.

4.   Speculators bought land all over the county.

5.   Speculators buy call options to make an inexpensive bet that the price of the underlying stock will rise.

6.   Some speculators bought contracts this month expecting that Mideast tensions would continue to send the market higher, Brown said.

7.   There is a healthy resale market for domain names, and speculators buy dozens at a time hoping someone else will pay big bucks for them.

8.   Twenty-two months ago, a speculator could have bought Clinton on the cheap.

9.   But speculators often buy index futures in Singapore and Japan simply to gamble.

10.   Some speculators bought back the dollar after its drop in New York, traders said.