Word: bazaar
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...rice and sugar are distributed to poor and working-class areas first. Still, Tehran does not give the appearance of extreme hardship. Traffic jams can be paralyzing, and almost anything can be had for a price. A pair of blue jeans imported from Taiwan goes for $100 in the bazaar...
OPEC has long been labeled a cartel, but it is really little more than an association of bazaar traders. A successful cartel, says any definition, must be able to control production and thereby set prices in good and bad times. The failure of OPEC to do that now makes it a sort of fair-weather cartel, strong in the late 1970s when the world's economies were buoy ant and had high demand for its oil, but weak now when Europe and the U.S. are less dependent upon its energy...
...today, the Macy's of Harvard Square offers 200 varieties in a special two-floor bazaar of the seasons. You could spend hours there and never get past March. How could anyone know whether Granny would prefer Vermont Life, New Hampshire Profiles, Cape Cod and the Islands or Martha's Vineyard...
What insane lawyer would take such a devil of a case? The sisters find him in an Ole Miss grad (Peter MacNicol) who was smitten with Babe when she once served him pound cake at a church bazaar. Besides, he relishes "personal vendettas...
...fashioned bazaar bargaining has now been made easier by computers. The machines locate the parties that might be able to make a trade and then give money-like credits that can be used in future deals. Says James Blunt, vice president of marketing and sales at Barter Systems' six-month-old office in Stamford, Conn.: "We operate very much like a bank-a bank of goods and services instead of cash...