The Fed regularly makes such purchases to add money to the banking system.

The purchase added 827,000 square miles and doubled the size of the U.S..

The purchase will lower earnings per share in 2001 but will add to earnings by 2003, it said.

Greenstone Roberts said the purchase would add billings of about $8 million.

That purchase would add 2.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent to its reserves, Lukoil said.

The purchase of the two territories added a sizable portion of the current Canadian landmass.

These purchases added six offices, almost 100 people and expanded the company into Europe.

The purchase of Marshall Field's, a department store company, for $1.1 billion in 1990 also added high-yield debt to the company's balance sheet.

The purchase of MP3.com alone added more than 3 million new tracks.

Besides, after buying a house, they were more respectable; the purchase added substance to their new identities.