A Microsoft man who was grilled at the hearing said the staffers' sums ignored hefty, regular "buy-in" payments that the foreign subsidiaries have to make to the parent.A second case study concerned lightly-taxed foreign profits brought back to America by Hewlett-Packard.
Bank holiday weekends are not traditionally good for sales of newspapers with regular buying routines disrupted by the break.
Chris Tsai, a regular, bought a 20-ounce large cup — strong tea, sugar, milk, ice and pearls of tapioca, sipped through a giant straw — but only because he and his girlfriend planned to share it.
She made regular buying trips to Europe, and never passed through London without visiting the Victoria & Albert (V&A) museum's jewellery gallery where, she recalled, she would "wander for an hour or two in blissful serenity".
These are buys that are done outside of the regular buying cycle.
Forbes caught up with Carol Fawcett, vice president of global information services at Quest Software, a company that has been on a regular buying spree for the better part of a decade.
"The regulars buy them drinks, and the girls buy them drinks.
We unwittingly gate-crashed a gathering of regulars buying phenomenal quantities of superlative foie gras and confit and indulging in floc-fuelled foodie banter.
But one of the regulars bought up the tobacco-infused wood panelling and moved it inside the empty premises next to a GDR-era ballroom a few kilometres north, where it reopened in May this year.
Some common examples include a set amount or percentage off the regular price, buy 1 and get 1 free, or a discount if you buy a set value of merchandise.
Now regular people buy as well".
