Word: distributor
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Copies of The Street are given free to homelesspersons who can hawk them on the streets and keepthe money. Additionally, free magazines aredistributed to area colleges and homelessshelters. Most of remaining copies are deliveredby hand to local businesses for sale, while othersare distributed by a commercial distributor...
...Allan Hendrickse, one of Botha's two nonwhite Cabinet ministers, led a group of 30 | protesters to whites-only King's Beach for a chilly ten-minute "splashabout" in defiance of the law. Proclaimed Hendrickse: "This is God's beach!" In the Transvaal, Ster-Kinekor, South Africa's main distributor of foreign films, said it would stop supplying U.S. productions from Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures unless whites-only admissions policies were dropped. Ster-Kinekor said it was under pressure from the two U.S. filmmakers...
...company name will be either unique or appropriate. Siegel & Gale gave U.S. Steel a list of possible new names for the steel conglomerate, including USX, Maxus and Amcor. USX was chosen before the manufacturer discovered that the name had already been adopted by USX Telecenters, a California-based distributor of telephone systems, which subsequently filed a $50 million trademark-infringement lawsuit against the steel company. After Houston Natural Gas merged with InterNorth in July 1985, Lippincott & Margulies, a New York City-based firm, came up with the name Enteron. As it happened, enteron is another word for the human digestive...
...unique eyeglasses were unveiled this month by Beta Phase, a Menlo Park, Calif., producer of the metal, and Universal Optical, the frame's distributor. The frames, which revert to their original shape at about 130 degreesF, will be available early next year in the same $80-to-$130 price range as conventional high-quality eyewear...
...what better time for a mail-order catalog of goods made by unionized American hands? Just such an order book will be available next week on a trial basis to some 100,000 members of the AFL-CIO. Created by Marc Schechtman, 35, general manager of a union shopping distributor in Fairfield, Iowa, the Union Label Shopper lists some 45 brand- name products, ranging from Dingo boots to West Bend appliances to ProctorSilex cookware, all at about 10% off store prices...