Word: buyer
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...Starbucks vendor stamps my frequent buyer card and passes over that familiar cup. As the aroma wafts toward my nose, I smile as big as the Starbucks girl...
...evaluating Kirch's assets for more than a year, Saban, 58, hopped to Germany in January when Kirch's creditors appeared to be near a deal with a German bidder. With a team of advisers, Saban set out to convince creditors, regulators and politicians that he was the best buyer. He knew that another rich American, media mogul John Malone, had tried in 2001 to buy a group of TV networks from Deutsche Telekom, Germany's major cable operator, but had been blocked by regulators in part because he was perceived as arrogant and unbending. Saban played the charmer...
...Power Rangers became his cash gusher. The Japanese show had been seen as too quirky for foreign audiences. Saban saw it differently and bought the foreign rights in 1985 for just $10,000 an episode. Eight years later he finally found a U.S. buyer in a fledgling children's cable channel owned by Murdoch's Fox Corp. With production and distribution support from Fox, Saban built the Power Rangers into a massive global franchise and in 1996 merged his media company with Murdoch's, eventually forming Fox Family Worldwide. In 2001, when he and Murdoch sold Fox Family to Disney...
With websites and 1-800 numbers, as well as frequent-buyer discounts, bookstores are doing all they can to drum up business...
Tolman said that although all of the land—including the 1.4 acre parcel—could be useful to Harvard in the far-off future, he said that the University is too greedy a buyer and unfairly enabled by tax breaks from the state that it gets as a non-profit institution...