Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marijuana, with a potential street value of $2,000 a plant, is Oregon's largest cash crop. Yet polls show that the proposition is unlikely to pass. Legalizing pot, opponents argue, would make it harder to fight abuse of other drugs and would turn Oregon into America's largest distributor of the weed...
...movie she co-stars with Husband Sean Penn, that terrific actor and legendary cutup. Last winter, when the newlyweds made the film, they also made headlines on every tabloid front page. There would seem to be a bit of "want see" here. And yet MGM, the distributor of Shanghai Surprise, has drop-kicked it into the marketplace like a turkey carcass...
...music of lasting value, just as when jazz first captured the imaginations of composers like Ravel and Gershwin. Whatever happens, it will be a step up from Wham! and Ozzy Osbourne. "New Age fans don't want to feel they are mellowing out," says Howard Wuelfing, a New Age distributor in New Jersey. "Just maturing...
...that only small quantities are produced. While the renowned Chateau Lafite has 225 acres that annually yield about 240,000 bottles, Chateau Petrus has just 30 acres that produce a scant 42,000 bottles. Says John Laird, a vice president for Seagram Chateau & Estate Wines, the largest U.S. distributor of Petrus: "We ration it out with an eyedropper...
...attorneys formally servicing the mob in New York City, and he claimed that other such lawyers operate in more than half a dozen major American cities. He contended that the Mafia has infiltrated "legitimate businesses" in New York, including a fuel-oil distributor and a school-bus company that has obtained a lucrative contract from the city's public schools...