Word: dealer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...harder, in fact, to catch a poacher than a tiger. Typically, says Desai, who has spent a decade chasing poachers and pelt dealers across the central Indian state of Maharashtra, the hunt begins with a tip-off from informants or rival dealers. Then you arrange a pelt showing. When the dealer unfurls his roll of pelts, you sniff each skin to check its quality. After that, you arrange the buy-in the midst of which the police pounce, arresting the dealer. This hunt can take months, only to be followed by the legal battle, which can take years...
...young conservatives through Washington to protest the Soviet downing of a Korean airliner and more as an operative with a taste for playing rough and cashing in. He was still the Navy brat, scrawny and smart, that his mother described to PEOPLE magazine in 1995: "[Ralph] was a wheeler-dealer," she said. "He always wanted to have the upper hand...
...established map dealer pled guilty on June 22 to stealing 97 antique maps, valued at over $3,000,000, from renowned libraries in the U.S. and England, including eight maps from Harvard’s Houghton Library. E. Forbes Smiley III’s practice of visiting libraries, cutting maps out of rare books, and selling them to dealers around the world came to an end when he dropped an Exacto knife blade in Yale’s Beinecke Library last June. According to documents filed by the Department of Justice, the library employee who found the knife became suspicious...
...more. Recent media reports have illuminated a darker side of this art movement, documenting cases of well-known artists being lured away from desert communities by unscrupulous dealers, to be plied with fast money, drugs and alcohol in exchange for hastily completed canvases, often of poor quality. The message is worrying buyers as far afield as France. "'dreamtime artist hit by nightmare of sex and fraud'-did you see that in the paper?" asks Arts d'Australie gallery dealer St?phane Jacob over the phone from Paris. "It's really something that is affecting the credibility of Aboriginal art overseas...
...ACTION DIRECTOR AS ARMS DEALER. Davian sells weapons and secrets to "axis of evil" nations (both of them). That's bad? Then why do action films peddle weapons of mass-media destruction to the audience? M:i:III has more cool hardware than a defense-industry trade show. It revels in the balletics of ballistics, the exploding orangeness of a fireball, the crystal shower as a body is propelled through plate glass. Fret at length...