Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Undoubtedly, the Coop is still predominantly oriented toward students, which is to be expected. Although students make up less than half of all Coop members, they are the store's chief customers. The Coop is the largest seller of books and records in New England, products which serve the student market primarily...
...collector-investor, film clips are highly popular and those showing the usually stoic Mr. Spock smiling are worth their weight in Martian gold. (Publicity photos are also popular, but some of the more ambitious fans photograph the show for themselves while it's on their television screens. Another big seller is sound recordings of the show, and Trekies have been known to memorize entire scripts. Most popular, however, are the properties from the show.) "I'd love to have one of the uniforms, but I can't afford it," lamented one fan. "Leonard Nimoy's shirt went...
...other companies that were in the business of reinsurance. Under this arrangement, the reinsurer pays the company that sold the policy $1.80 for every $1 it gets in premiums the first year. The buyer hopes to make a profit by later getting most of the premium money while the seller continues to service the policy. To get the money to pay the premiums for phantom policyholders, Equity had to sell greater amounts of fictitious insurance policies every year. That...
...bakery, metal-processing plant or other users of the goods. The rest are purely paper transactions; if the holder of a soybean future, for example, theoretically bought the beans at $5 a bushel, and the price has risen to $6, he can cancel the contract by having the paper seller of the beans pay him his profit in cash. At the Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade (CBT)-where more than half the commodity action takes place-and other exchanges, such transactions are made in a bedlam of shouting and waving by "pit traders" who do the buying...
...confrontation between dissidents and authority makes journalists vulnerable to attack. The American Indian Movement's takeover of Wounded Knee has provided a classic case study. "It could have been settled in a week if it weren't for this horde [of reporters]," argued Interior Department Aide Charles Seller. Said Assistant Deputy Attorney General Charles Ablard: "The press has created a climate of undue sympathy for AIM." Sioux Tribal Council President Dick Wilson, whose resignation AIM leaders demanded, excoriated newsmen covering the occupied village for responding "only to dramatic violence and anarchy." Last week this criticism received an unlikely...