The spread of these black-market cubes challenges the London-based company with a marketing brain teaser.
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But the black-market rate determines the prices of everything from beer to school fees.
Wily criminals are increasingly operating black-market phoning businesses based in parks and on street corners.
But in 2009 attempts predictably missed their mark as producers hoarded stocks and the black-market price soared.
Venezuela's bolivar currency fell about 9% against the dollar in black-market trading Thursday, to 6.1 per dollar.
Police said experts fear the rhino's horn could be ground down to use in black-market Chinese medicine.
Using Facebook and Twitter authentication wherever possible streamlines registration, while increasing the black-market value of those skeleton keys.
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This prompted a panicked black-market run on the Egyptian pound that eased only when the measures were dropped.
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In Zimbabwe, the black-market exchange rate is nearly ten times the official one.
Italy also likes amnesties, arguing that they encourage black-market workers to pay taxes.
Now, all foreign currencies must be changed at commercial banks at the official rate, barely a third of the black-market rate.
Hollywood is not amused when grainy copies of blockbusters appear on black-market DVDs even before films are released in the cinema.
Remarkably, this may actually ease price pressures, because rationing, which had pushed the old black-market price up to 330 kyat a gallon, has been relaxed.
Turkish police displayed evidence this week of what they say is the growing black-market trade of weapons of U.S. origin being smuggled across the border from neighboring Iraq.
Although he offers no hard evidence, Mr. McGee says that he has been told by FAA inspectors and mechanics that black-market parts are being installed on U.S. passenger planes.
The government has abolished jail terms for those caught dealing in foreign currency, offered extra incentives for private investment and brought the official exchange rate closer to the black-market one.
Click on the interactive map for an illustration of the extent to which piracy is a problem in 59 countries, as well as the economic costs of the current boom in black-market materials.
The company, Ponemon says, gave data from six million customer accounts to a marketing firm in Southeast Asia, where it was eventually posted to a Central Asian site dealing in black-market credit card numbers.
The black-market operators themselves are an unprepossessing lot, however, and a visit to a black-market restaurant will quickly convince anyone that a fair proportion of the patrons are engaged in other branches of the same racket.
Capitol Police learned from Wicker's staff that Curtis had sent similar messages to the senator and that Curtis had posted on his blog in 2010 that he was writing a novel about black-market body parts titled "Missing Pieces, " the affidavit says.
The country's current foreign-exchange system, which involves a fixed "official" exchange rate that makes the currency, the kyat, more than 100 times as valuable against the dollar as the black-market rate, is so confusing that many foreign companies have refused to re-enter the country even if Western leaders ease sanctions against Myanmar, the country also known as Burma, as expected later this year.
Is it structured to fend off the asset-eroding potential of triggers such as so-called Black Swan events, Black Monday-level market implosions, interest and inflation rate swings, war or an oil supply disruption?
It has led to an increase in currency sales on the black market - but Paypal's exchange rates are better.
Black-garbed Serb pensioners can shop in the market in the Albanian-dominated town of Gnjilane without the American armoured vehicles which have hitherto been needed to protect them.
The Italian government needs to get more people to pay their taxes, but, as the economic situation worsens, that is proving harder as more people resort to the black market for cash-in-hand jobs.
In total, the black majority owns 5.3% of the local stock market including all so-called "black chip" investment, down from 9.6% in 1998.
"They" are the poachers who haunt those waters, men who catch more than the legal limit of fish--striped bass, sea bass, fluke and blackfish (tautog)--then sell them on the black market.
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