Two decades ago he exploited the shadowy system of gray-market capitalism in the Soviet Union.
Apple hasn't released the latest iPad in the Mideast, but retailers in the U.A.E. have said gray-market sales have been robust.
Industry experts speculate that 150 Oscars have been sold since the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929--half of which are likely gray-market sales involving post-1950 statuettes.
Most hip-hop artists nowadays prime the pump with gray-market mixtape CDs that add guest tracks, skits, freestyles, and other second-drawer material to scattered previews of their next album.
Of course, launch sales have been affected to some degree by crafty gray-market importers, which Sony has sought to shut down, but that can't dampen the enthusiasm of the hundreds of thousands who have pre-ordered the sleek multimedia marvel.
Expect this A02 -- which is also available in blue or gray -- to hit the Japanese market in mid-February.
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To combat this giant gray market--where fakes can easily snake their way into the drug supply--Bond and other drug company executives are hoping to turn to a new technology, called radio frequency identification, or RFID, which pairs a tiny microchip with a small antenna.
At some point, analysts say, the company is likely to face scrutiny not only over its past in the U.S., but over what has become a reality of online gambling: the so-called gray market.
Our thirst to know ever more creates the hazardous gray market where tell-all accounts thrive.
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Adriel Desautels, the chief executive of cybersecurity firm Snosoft, buys and sells software-vulnerability data in a growing gray market and says the demand for critical Apple bugs has steadily increased.
After all, it was the then-existing competition--from growing suburban newspapers, television, all-news radio stations and, of course, the Inquirer and Daily News--that lured readers and advertisers away from the Old Gray Lady of Market Street and helped ensure her doom.
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