Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gardner concentrates particularly on three individuals: a priest, a healer, and a fairly eccentric distributor of sacred fire. Keeping them straight, however, presents a somewhat difficult task--an almost unavoidable weakness in preserving the integrity of the cinema verite...
...identified Gaetano Badalamenti as a onetime capo, or boss, of the ruling Mafia commission in Sicily. Badalamenti, the key defendant, stared back impassively. Gaetano Mazzara's bemused smile turned to a look of disgust when he was picked out at the crowded defense tables and identified as the American distributor for the imported heroin. More such fingering is expected as Buscetta continues to testify in a complex trial that could last as long as six months. Defense attorneys will assail Buscetta's credibility, and are expected to charge that he is singing in an effort to avoid prosecution...
...only with the usual bewildering selection of cameras and lenses but also with a choice of prices for the same item. The popular Nikon FE-2 camera, for example, costs either $279.50 or $239.50. What's the difference? Top dollar buys a camera backed by an authorized U.S. Nikon distributor. For the lower price, a buyer gets the same machine but with only Bi-Rite's guarantee...
Welcome to the world of the gray market. Embraced by bargain hunters at the same time that it is cursed by conventional retailers, the gray market thrives by selling brand-name cameras, consumer electronics, personal computers, cars and even excavators without the imprimatur of a manufacturer's authorized distributor. The products do not have either the standard warranty or the higher markup. Unlike black-market trafficking in stolen or counterfeit goods, gray-market trade is perfectly legal and has even been encouraged by the Reagan Administration...
Enter the gray marketers. They buy their products in Europe, Asia and elsewhere instead of getting them from authorized U.S. distributors. K mart last year spent about $100 million on gray-market imports, including Swiss- made Accutron watches that it sells for less than $100, or about half the manufacturer's suggested price. Says Robert Stevenson, K mart vice president: "There is no reason to pay unreasonable prices to the manufacturer's U.S. distributor when you can obtain exactly the same products at lower cost overseas." Importers have even invaded the market for heavy machinery. Caterpillar excavators imported from France...