Word: buyer
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Jacob thought the regulations were ridiculous, since in all his years on the farm, no one had done something so silly as smoke hemp. What's more, the U.S. government had been his biggest buyer of hemp in the '40s. Cannabis-growing permits were plentiful during World War II because imports of other fibers dried up. In 1942 the USDA even produced a film, Hemp for Victory, to encourage farmers to plant hemp to meet wartime demand for rope...
...present familiar marketplace images in a way that makes their familiarity painfully evident. Wing is hyper-self-conscious about symmetry and repetition, about pattern and economy of perspective. He uses ambient light to affect a sort of cheapness of color and thus draws attention to aesthetic costs of a buyer-friendly market place—lifeless blues and greens and oranges. The photographs themselves are mechanically arranged on the wall, with the same precision of placement and over-attention to balance and equilibrium. They pit—or at least seem to pit—art and commercial culture...
...option is a bet that a stock will decline in value. If the stock rises or remains at the same price, the buyer loses the money spent to buy the puts...
...each dollar the stock drops in value, the buyer makes a dollar. With Enron stock now virtually worthless, Highfields could have profited greatly from Enron’s collapse, members of Harv ardWatch said...
...first thing President Bush and Chinese President Jiang Zemin discussed when they met in Shanghai in October was the Sept. 11 attacks. Then they got down to business: soybeans. A few years ago, U.S. soy exports to China were negligible. But last year China became the top buyer of U.S. soy products, purchasing $1 billion worth, much of it for animal feed. On the agenda in Shanghai was a dispute over whether China would temporarily accept USDA assurances about the safety of America's genetically modified soy crops. Jiang, wary of starting a trade dispute on the eve of China...