Word: dealers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Agency No. 1, postponed their offerings to avoid testing the market. Some industry insiders fear that the continuing Whoops mess could ultimately sour investors on the entire spectrum of municipal bonds. Says James Lebenthal, whose appearances in television commercials have made him America's most recognizable municipal bond dealer: "I feel threatened, and so does the whole industry. I feel the shame of Whoops...
...result of that dependence, Japan is the wheeler-dealer of the world energy trade. Oil is oil to the Japanese; it matters not who sells it or where it comes from, so long as it keeps flowing. Though such an attitude can be partly excused because oil is Japan's lifeblood, it has sometimes offended Westerners...
...buyers had to bid up the price to get the available supplies. Cotton prices have risen nearly 10? per lb. this year, mostly because of bad weather. Eventually, however, reduced supply should strengthen prices and put more money in fanners' pockets. "The confidence level is better," says Tractor Dealer Bob Kennon of Tifton, Ga. "People are more optimistic about the fall harvest than they've been in two years...
...bushes to grab their victim as she pulled her Mercedes into the driveway of the Quinonez home in the wealthy Miami suburb of Coral Gables. They then drove her to the hideaway in Washington. Calling from telephone booths in Miami and Washington, they negotiated with her husband, Export-Import Dealer Roberto Quinonez Meza, for a ransom of $1.5 million. Disobeying the kidnapers' orders, Quinonez had notified the FBI the first day of the abduction and had taken calls from the kidnapers in the FBI's Miami field office. By wiretapping the calls, the bureau was able...
...Iran traffic is far beyond the rumor stage. TIME has seen proof in the form of hundreds of documents provided by Carlos Vieira de Mello, an international arms dealer who worked with the purported rug merchant, Hashemi. TIME has also examined secret records from the State Department's Office of Munitions Control and papers from private arms companies showing that U.S. tank engines and fighter-plane spares were routed to Iran through Canada and Britain. The records indicate that much of the trade is directed from London...