A year and a half later, after obtaining financing from an insurance company, he bought the club for $1 million.

"The plan is to get jobs, and within two years, buy ourselves a house."

Most Japanese people save up for years to buy one and then often spend an equal amount of time in debt after making the investment.

The same year, they and a partner bought 121 West 15th Street for $900,000.

Several years ago a developer bought the land and wanted to close the mobile-home park, which has been on the site since 1948.

Some years ago a gentleman from Texas bought the whole camp.

A year or so earlier Bryne could have bought a fair horse for no more.

A year after their marriage, he and his wife bought a house in Reading, a suburb about 15 miles north of there.

At age 41, several years after her divorce, she herself bought a second home on a lake in Wisconsin.

Every year or two he'd buy a new Cadillac, usually a dark color.