installment buying
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Consumer debt, the kind that results from credit-card purchases, installment buying and other small loans, has jumped since 1975, from $197 billion to $289 billion.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Italy, auto sales are down 10% so far this year, largely because of such government anti-inflation measures as higher auto and gasoline taxes and restrictions on installment buying.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1930 many a prophet predicted that bad times would kill installment buying, but C. I. T. flourished throughout Depression, last year cashed in on motor recovery.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the recession picked up momentum in early '58, the fear was that installment buying would plummet and, with a wave of repossessions by finance companies, pull the economy down farther.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is for them to provide facilities for the transaction of business, cash money, credit instruments, installment buying, means for changing money, insurance, discounting facilities.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Scott Nearing
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