Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kings, sponsored by the Cambridge Anheuser-Busch distributor, have gained a reputation as a wild and crazy bunch, a reputation that Coach Tim Flynn (also Coach of Division III defending champion Bettley College) terms inaccurate. "Most of the guys have to get up and go to work in the morning. We're not looking for physical game," he said...
...seat art deco monument in Rockefeller Center; and the movie was a $26 million love story whose ballooning budget carried Coppola's Zoetrope Studios further on its drift toward disaster; and in violation of all movieland protocol, the preview was arranged without notifying the film's distributor. And so, with one full-page ad placed in last Sunday's New York Times, Coppola turned One From the Heart from a potential loser into the year's first big media event. This Friday night, thousands of the movie-mad and the just plain curious will crowd into...
There is some dispute over who owns One From the Heart. According to one source, Coppola may have sold the film to Paramount without having bought it back from MGM, its previous distributor. Lawyers from Paramount and Zoetrope are also haggling over the contract. Did Paramount renege by not paying Zoetrope $1.6 million in "completion money"? Did Coppola lose his claim by going too far over the shooting schedule? The maestro maintained that these details do not matter: "There is no battle as far as I'm concerned. I'm just trying to give people the excitement...
This idea is the key to accepting Posner's definition of justice--a belief that the market economy is the best producer and distributor of wealth. The author buttresses this assertion with compelling, but confusing evidence; his textbook-style charts and statistical comparisons enhance the appeal of the reasoning he presents in clear hypothetical cases...
...trying to finance his recreational use. The business seemed so easy that it just grew. Throughout their perilous escapades, Stein berg and friends remained calm, peaceful, fun-loving, devil-may-care. They never used force. If an aide was kidnaped, they paid the ransom. If a distributor burned them on a payoff, they simply did not deal with him again. Their mothers, aunts, wives, girlfriends were recruited to rent safe houses in Miami suburbs for storing drugs or to ride along as evidence of propriety when they were transporting a shipment. Says Steinberg: "I never saw a gun the whole...