Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reported that video pirates were preparing an all-out assault on the summer's hottest film, Return of the Jedi. Lucasfilm Ltd., the producer, stepped up security by policing film labs, fastening film canisters with special metal seals, and using messengers to deliver prints around the U.S. The distributor, 20th Century-Fox, sent telegrams to 836 theater managers urging them to take "every possible security" measure against piracy...
More than 30 students and striking employees of H.A. Hovey Corporation Harvard's main supplier of dairy products picketed in front of the Freshman Unions yesterday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., demanding that the University stop doing business with the Cambridge based distributor of institutional food...
...Japanese-born Ken Hakuta, 33, exclusive U.S. distributor for the toy, the WallWalker has other charms. It has already made him a millionaire several times over. The walk to riches began last November, when Hakuta's parents in Tokyo sent several of the widgets to his 3½-year-old son Kenzo, in Washington. Entrepreneur Hakuta, who has an M.B.A. from Harvard and runs a Washington-based import-export firm called Tradex, was immediately smitten with the toy and arranged to have it shipped to the U.S. He says: "I figured it might be something that could put humor...
...price of prestige plunged last week. Faced with sluggish sales, the U.S. distributor for Britain's Rolls-Royce Motors, makers of the world's most elegant line of automobiles, slashed prices on all Rolls models. The cost of a sleek Silver Spirit, the cheapest Rolls, dropped from $111,000 to $93,000, while the price for a top-of-the-line Corniche convertible fell from...
...alliance hopes that Attorney General William French Smith will reconsider the decision and remove the stipulations now imposed on the distributor, but doesn't expect a response until next week...