installment buying
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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
While publicly deploring U.S. consumers who put themselves in debt, Soviet officials have quietly experimented with installment buying for two years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Easing up on Regulation W, which restricts installment buying.
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
The sewing machine became the first widely advertised consumer appliance, pioneered installment buying and patent pooling, and revolutionized the ready-made clothing industry.
From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers
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