They bought videotapes of the instrument panels of the jets they were planning to commandeer.

Facets now buys videotapes from 1,100 different manufacturers, rents 68,000 a year and sells 150,000 more.

"It's like buying videotapes of recently released movies on the street corner," said Albert W. O'Leary, the spokesman for the transit police.

Williams began teaching his children the sport after subscribing to tennis magazines and buying instructional videotapes.

Joe Zito did not know much about baseball, but he began to buy books and videotapes.

Legend has it that they began to make cheap movies only because Nigerian consumers wouldn't buy blank videotapes.

Preschool children incessantly nagged their Barney-hating parents to buy them sing-along videotapes or tickets to the dinosaur's stage shows.

People who buy child pornography magazines and videotapes in New York State are breaking the law, the state's highest court warned today.

People are flocking to seminars, reading books and buying videotapes to learn the finer points of flirting, skills that might once have been absorbed naturally.

Democrats recently filed a complaint with the committee on Mr. Gingrich's comments during the speech, including citing a toll-free number that could be used to buy videotapes of the course.