Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, Apple's management has remained curiously unperturbed. Says Jeremy Lack, general manager of Apple's East Asian distributor: "The executives in California have underestimated the enemy, and if they don't quickly do something about it, they're going to find cheap copies of the Apple being sold on every corner in the U.S." Apple's general counsel, Albert Eisenstat, toured East Asia two months ago to assess the problem. He concluded that the Asian challenge was not yet serious enough to warrant immediate legal action, but Apple is still considering that option. Says...
...part of an FBI sting operation from 1977 until 1980, Livingston used the alias "Pat Salamone" while masquerading as a Miami pornography distributor. He hobnobbed with gangsters, buying their smut, counterfeit Hollywood films and even 50 submachine guns. The sting ended in 54 arrests, but for Livingston the charade had become muddled with reality. He kept bank accounts in his pseudonym and introduced himself regularly as Pat Salamone. According to Fred Schwartz, the Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting the sting defendants, Livingston has "psychiatric problems that make it difficult for him to distinguish between his real identity and his undercover identity...
...detained driv ers for use later as evidence. In Los Angeles some second-time offenders have to use a specially equipped car. After turning on the ignition, the driver must maneuver the steering wheel so that a needle moves into the "pass" area on a gauge. In Maine, Beer Distributor Frank Gaziano of South Portland is pushing bar owners to buy breath analyzers. The customer puts 500 in the slot and blows into the machine through a straw; a red light goes on for a score of . 10% or higher...
...machines in the Houses and the Freshman Union are currently license said Mary Calnan, an official at the city licensing commission. She added that the effect of the fee increase on the Union and House commitees renting the units games depends on the particular distributor who owns the games...
...Somewhere in the hullabaloo, the Board's various executive directors and Program Services Officers--the ones dealing with the fluctuating legislation and sparring with reporters over nuances in PSAT answer sheets--discovered a new concerned group: students. Ordinarily the Board shapes policies around input from ETS, which as distributor deals with high school and college administrators and guidance counselors, who deal with kids. Most of the relevant top brass also take the SAT every few years to see how the land lies...