Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tries to produce a minimum of two pages a day. Setting a regular routine may be somewhat easier in the monotony of prison life than on the outside, but nothing else seems easier. He still has to carry a full prison workload as a mail distributor, starting at 5:30 a.m. Not until 10:30 p.m., when he has been locked back into his one-man cell for the night and prison noises subside, does he start writing. Because there is no lights-out rule, he sometimes works as late as 3:30 a.m. Each novel takes him about four...
...fact, he is. Jodorowsky, whose first feature film, El Topo, has recently emerged from underground status to become an aboveground cult, smiles in happy bemusement as the man from Allen Klein's (Beatles' manager and El Topo' distributor) summarily introduces the Chilean director to a miscast sampling of the Boston press...
...difference between the raw-material cost and the selling price of the product. This would be above and beyond his regular sales and income taxes. Then the wholesaler of the chairs would also pay a 3% VAT on the amount that he added to the selling price; the distributor and the retailer, too, would pay value-added taxes. These extra costs would ultimately be passed on to the consumer as increased prices...
Moxie and Mink Oil. Only five years ago, Turner gave up selling sewing machines to poor Southern rural blacks and became a distributor for a small cosmetics concern, but he soon wound up broke. He then got a $5,000 bank loan and started his own cosmetics firm, Koscot Interplanetary Inc., in Orlando, Fla. Even before he had a product, Turner had a small staff out recruiting distributors, who were asked to advance up to $5,000 to get in on the ground floor of a great proposition. Amazingly, the recruiters found people willing to pay. The money began...
...foreign cars and Christmas supplies of everything from toys to tree ornaments, which dealers can now sell at prefreeze prices. Even so, the main worry is about dwindling inventories. "Some of our dealers are faced with taking on a second line of products like lawnmowers or tractors," says Datsun Distributor Karl Henning. "You can't keep the store open without any beans on the shelf...