Word: sell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really blame them? Each month, some 6 million visitors flock to eBay's sprawling virtual tag sale, according to research firm Media Metrix, right behind Amazon's 8 million. A third of those browsers regularly bid on or sell a selection of nearly 2 million items, including computers, Ginsu knives, baseball cards and model trains, generating about $300 million in total transactions during the fourth quarter of fiscal 1998. "There's a constant trade show going on," says Steve Karas, of New York, who auctions sports cards on the site. By taking a 1.25%-to-5% cut on each...
After my great-uncle survived Auschwitz and came to America in the late 1940s, he got a job selling shoes in Braintree, Mass. He had been a lawyer in Germany, and when the owner of the shoe shop saw that his new salesman was able and educated, he offered him the position of store manager. But my great-uncle declined. He said it was enough for him to be in America and to be able to sell shoes. And so he did, until the day he died...
...from foreign countries where trademark laws are different fromaand often less rigorously enforcedathan in the United States. Regardless of the worldwide fame of the name, in some countries the first company to register >=Harvard=there is that kind of feel, just like traditional, classic.=Marks & Spencer is allowed to sell men s toiletries bearing the Harvard mark only in Marks & Spencer stores and only outside the U.S., Canada and Mexico,=It wasn t an agreement that we had a choice over,=cease and desist=noxious=Our attorneys proved to them that we weren t using the trademark name,=It brought...
...bottom line is that recording labels, managers, producers and radio stations are fearful of losing their traditional hold over the musicians themselves. It used to be that in order to sell their music, bands had to sign with a recording label with the right contacts to get their songs out to DJs and industry heads for local and national promotion. Labels who caught up-and-comers could sign them to contracts which bound them to turn over a huge percentage of their profits and subsequently regulate all aspects of album production, touring...
...imagine whoever stole them," she said. "I hope they would enjoy them and they wouldn't try to sell them...