"Clinton bought it once, Bush bought it again, and we're not going to buy it a third time," one of Mr. Obama's chief strategists said last week, referring to the Yongbyon plant, where the North reprocesses spent nuclear fuel into bomb-grade plutonium.
I like to say that there's three different levels for buyers: people buy it once for a collectors value or as a gift, then people that buy it a second time because it tastes good and then people buy it a third time because it tastes good and the price is good.
And then there is also The New York Post, where losses have been estimated at $20 million a year and it was considered close to death until Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive of the News Corporation, stepped in and bought it for a second time in 1993, thus preserving a conservative editorial voice in the city.
Liberty has been his muse for more than a decade at TCI he formed it, spun it off, bought it back, spun it off a second time and is taking it back again and he isn't about to give up control without a fight.
"At some point, it becomes unfair to the reader because the consumer is buying for a second time what he thought was original material," Mr. Navasky said.
But would they buy a second time?
Around 80% of Wish's first-time customers will return to buy a second time.
Who loves the New York Post he bought for a second time 18 years ago?
When the boyfriend joined the parade of departures, she bought the house a second time, with a friend.
If you buy the same program a second time, you cannot return it.
Buying it for the first time, though, is a whole different story, one you should probably become familiar with.
