Word: merchant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nazis and a plumbing-supply merchant with sidelines in piety and jealous rage lurk there, along with a mastermind whose ends may justify his means but not his perpetual sneer. Youth gangs, corrupt cops, drug smugglers and, yes, some late-model toilet bowls also have their places in a tale whose complexities would devour most actors...
...emphasizing high standards, found himself so quickly saddled with so many embarrassments? Part of the answer is that, ethics aside, friendship and political alliances go a long way with Bush -- and with the rest of Washington. If Tower does not show up in public drunk, with an Iranian arms merchant on one arm and a female KGB officer on the other, he may make...
...series of embarrassing disclosures in the West German press. The most detailed appeared last Thursday in the weekly Stern, which traced the Libyan project to I.B.I. Engineering, a now defunct firm. I.B.I. had set up an office in Frankfurt through which the firm's chief, an exiled Iraqi arms merchant named Ihsan Barbouti, 64, orchestrated the involvement of Imhausen and as many as 30 other firms and individuals from West Germany, Switzerland and Austria. At least some of the equipment shipped to Libya was ostensibly purchased by I.B.I. for a Hong Kong firm called Pen-Tsao, which has a Hamburg...
...Merchant of Venice, The: A COMEDY by William SHAKESPEARE. The most memorable CHARACTER is SHYLOCK, a greedy money lender who demands from the title character "a POUND OF FLESH" as payment for a DEBT...
Witness #1: Abul Haj, arms dealer and rug merchant...