Word: buyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they have it in Connecticut, why don't they protect the new car buyer here?" Maynard said in an interview Saturday. He added that he had received 500 letters from listeners with horror stories about cars they had bought...
Coop houseware buyer Marguerite A. Luhrs said yesterday that Sundays may generate considerable profits. "Cambridge will be especially successful because it is an active place where people like to be out and around...
...instant euphoria. My problems drained away." Before that night in June 1980, Tarver, 35, had often posed as a coke buyer. He was an ambitious, model police officer, a survivor of 25 shootouts. He was Houston's 1978 Officer of the Year. But he had always glibly talked his way out of testing the merchandise, insisting that the coke was too expensive to waste in a tryout. Undercover agents avoid such tests because they are against the law-and because there is no way to tell what suspicious dealers may have mixed into the drugs. This time, however...
...state and local-but supposedly respectable institutions help them do it. "Take someone who has just bought $1,000 worth of clothing," says Connecticut Revenue Commissioner Orest Dubno. "The store can ship a necktie somewhere out of state, so it can show a UPS address and receipt, and the buyer avoids the state sales tax. Actions such as these contribute to losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars...
Israel has several reasons for pursuing its arms trade. Most important, it needs the money to help cover the huge research and development costs of its own weaponry. In consequence, it does not ask too many questions about a prospective buyer...