This might sound outlandish, but consider what merely offering to establish a regional nuclear-free zone would buy Israel.
In Georgiy Daneliya's 1990 film "Passport," two brothers look so alike that one of them borrows the other's passport to cross into Sheremetyevo's transit zone to buy champagne (none is sold on the Soviet side) to properly mark his brother's family's emigration to Israel.
He was visiting the Shenzhen economic zone to buy materials for bags when he met a former classmate, who told him about a new thing called stock trading.
Motorists who are residents of the defined zone can buy a greatly reduced season pass which is renewed monthly and is cheaper than a corresponding bus fare.
"This changed over the past year," Mr. Eppink added, when officials and politicians in Brussels "realized that many problems in the euro zone were bought on by ourselves, not by sharks and speculators".
They're stepping up operations and scrambling to find ways to get around the Shabab restrictions, turning to new technologies like sending electronic money by cellphone so people in famine zones can buy food themselves from local markets.
The Swiss National Bank, the nation's central bank, has watched with alarm as investors fleeing the crisis in the euro zone have bought Swiss assets, driving the franc up against the euro and other currencies.
Taking advantage of the growing tensions, Colombians from outside the border zone are buying up ranches and farms in the area from Ecuadoreans who fear the worst and are eager to leave.
In the last few months, Western aid agencies have been ramping up operations and scrambling to find ways to obviate the Shabab restrictions, relying on technologies like sending money electronically by cellphone so people in famine zones can buy food from local markets.
