Word: buyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Selling stamps doesn't really require human interaction between buyer and seller. So presumably to save consumers long waits in line for short business transactions, the post office installed stamp-vending machines which sell the books of 20 stamps for the same $4.40 as you pay if you stand in line...
...included two princes who would become Kings, Faisal II of Iraq and Hussein of Jordan. There Khashoggi learned the rudiments of dealmaking. He found out that a Libyan schoolmate's father wanted to buy sheets and towels; he knew that an Egyptian classmate's father manufactured them. He introduced buyer and seller, and it yielded his first commission, about...
...course, for most of the rising and risen stars of the art heaven that is New York, being misunderstood is as good as being understood--if the public reaction is positive and the buyer has signed the check...
...million. While the company does not refine petroleum or process chemicals in the country, two of its subsidiaries do produce these products. Exxon employed about 200 South Africans, who accounted for roughly 2 percent of Exxon's $93.2 billion in revenues. Because the company could not find a local buyer for its affiliates, a trust was established to continue operations...
...Beverly Hills Hotel are on the set of a deal so big and racy that it could inspire a screenplay. The 74-year-old pink-and-green landmark has been sold at auction by the feuding family of Wall Street's most notorious insider trader, Ivan Boesky. The buyer: Tycoon Marvin Davis. The secretive Denver oilman, 61, submitted the winning bid of about $135 million to Boesky's wife Seema and her sister Muriel Slatkin. The sisters have not spoken in years, partly because Seema, who held 52% of the property, and Ivan refused Muriel a private table...