Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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COCA, however, failed to identify itself as the distributor of the material as required by rules in the Handbook for Students, printing only the word "facsimile" in small type at the card's bottom...
Some of the losers wind up at the Atlantic City Rescue Mission. Its population has included an Egyptian mathematician, a scholar from Hong Kong and a retired Israeli brigadier general who was a well-to-do appliance distributor in Jerusalem. William Southrey, the mission's director of ministries, once picked up a hitchhiker who turned out to be his old high school teacher and coach...
...trend is not confined to cassettes. Almost one-third of the country's 24,000 movie screens are also bombarding patrons with commercials. "We are purveyors of entertainment that sells," says Terry Laughren, president of Screenvision Cinema Network, the largest distributor of theater advertising...
...Most civilizations have expressed their moral values by mobilization of social opprobrium. That, rather than specific legislation, is what changed the treatment of minorities in films and TV over recent years. One can now draw opprobrious attention by gay bashing, as the Beastie Boys rock group found when their distributor told them to cut out remarks about "fags" for business reasons. Or by anti-Semitism, as the just disbanded rap group Public Enemy has discovered...
...Manhattan basement uncovered a true trove. There were six boxes filled with 1,500 unassembled frames and the tools to put them together. A deal was struck, and the boxes were shipped to L.A. Inside one of the treasure boxes was an itemized bill signed by the eyeglasses distributor whose half- century-old inventory they had just bought: Oliver Peoples...