Word: finders
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...Smart shoppers may also save by declining a dealer's offer to make arrangements for "on-the-spot financing." Chances are that the bank pays the dealer what amounts to a "finder's fee" for lining up the loan. The fee often amounts to $100 on three-year loans, or enough to compensate the dealer for some cuts in the price of the auto. Buyers aware of such special ties between dealers and their banks may be able to bargain for a better sales price or simply make their own loan arrangements...
Precisely how all of this will be attempted is still unclear. During the campaign, for instance, Nixon declared that the U.S. must help Israel maintain clear military superiority over the Arabs. Last week, however, William Scranton, Nixon's roving fact finder, said while in the Middle East that the U.S. should adopt a more "evenhanded" approach. He repeated the phrase after reporting to Nixon in New York. Scranton's implication was clear: the U.S. had been unfair to the Arab states. Nixon himself has not indicated any modification in U.S. policy, and Israel's Moshe Dayan said...
...total number of ads made. Rightly noting that this figure is still too low, General Foods has set for itself an even higher quota of 15%. The search for black talent has become so intense, in fact, that one agency is offering its employees a $50 finder's fee. This prompted Negro Leader James Farmer to observe: "I don't think we ought to let them have a Negro that cheaply. I think instead we ought to start ourselves a rent-a-Negro company...
...former deputy director of the CIA. Gales of up to 55 miles closed in about a day out, and from the time they left Chesapeake Bay, Cameron and company saw no other boats. The Lancetilla's electronic gear gave out, including the speed indicator and the radio direction finder, requiring navigation by dead reckoning...
...most efficient finder of lost alumni-60,000 since 1962-is Manhattan's Tracers Company of America; alumni tracing is now the biggest part of its business. Tracers General Manager Edward Goldfader estimates that colleges could gain $20 million a year by dunning all of their lost grads. Tracers, which gets between $3 and $5 for each alumnus it finds, employs 18 people armed with U.S. telephone books, city directories, social registries, professional and business directories, even some voting lists. Thirteen field agents check local probate records...