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market and cross
In the US, " cross ownership " also refers to a type of investment in different mass-media properties in one market.
The market cross in Bath Street dates from the 15th century, with the shelter having been rebuilt in 1834.
These companies are often children of or partially owned by general market labels such as Warner, EMI, and Capitol Records, giving successful artists an opportunity to " cross over " into mainstream markets.
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam had a style that was less electro and more pop, and paved the way for artists such as Corina, Stevie B, George Lamond, Sweet Sensation and the Cover Girls to cross over into the pop market.
"( You Are My ) All and All " by Joyce Sims became the first freestyle record to cross over into the R & B market, and was one of the first to reach the European market.
Technically, the cross price elasticity of demand between goods in such a market is positive.
The town became a centre for commerce, which led to the construction of the market cross, Glastonbury Canal and the Glastonbury and Street railway station, the largest station on the original Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.
At the centre of a large rural agricultural hinterland that encompasses some of the flattest and most productive land in Scotland, Stirling principally functioned as a market town, symbolised by its Mercat cross, with farmers coming to sell their products and wares in the large agricultural market that was held in the town.
The hexagonal, tall, market cross in the town centre dates back to a bequest of £ 20 by Walter Buckland in 1520, and was rebuilt in 1841.
After receiving commercial success throughout Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Martin prepared his first English album in 1999 in an attempt to cross over to the United States market.
The old market cross was removed in the early 20th century to make way for a monument to the coronation of King Edward VII, but was preserved by the horticulturalist E. A. Bowles for his garden at nearby Myddelton House, where it remains today.
In the town centre there is a market cross, which is now used as a Tourist Information Centre and is owned by the Town Council.
The centre of town is the marketplace, with its market cross, and the relatively modern Northumberland Hall, used as a meeting place.
The earliest reference to the market cross and tron of Wigtown occurs in the 1457 charter.
It appears that the market cross stood in front of the old court house and was removed for a short time in the 18th century.
While the square was under construction, the market cross was stored in the jail, A second market cross was erected in the main street in 1816, and at some point the original was brought out of its confinement and placed to the west of it.
At some time later the older market cross was repaired, re-painted, and re-sited to the east of the second.
With this charter came the rights to set up a market cross and tolbooth, to hold a weekly market on Tuesday and two annual fairs each of three days duration.

market and prison
Many of the prisoners had prize-money to come from their own country ; many others made their own in their hammocks at night, even forging Bank of England and local bank notes, which they passed off in the great daily market held in the prison.
In many countries, a war on drugs caused prices to soar 10x-20x higher, leading to profitable black market drugdealing, and to prison inmate sentences being 80 % related to drug use by the 1990s.
Cigarettes are still used as a form of commodity money in U. S. prisons ( concludes that where jails don't ban them, the prison " gray market " creates a largely benign use of the cigarette as " currency ").
Since most of these nations did not have a prison system, convicts were often sold or used in the scattered local domestic slave market.
Criminal penalties for victimless crimes not only create a lucrative black market, but also imprison millions for acts that harm no one else, while destroying their employability and feeding a vicious and politically entrenched prison industry.
Prisoners were permitted to sell artefacts twice a week at the local market, or daily at the prison gate.
At the same time, prisoners usually do not make a good workforce, and the products produced by prison labor in China are of extremely low quality and have become unsalable on the open market in competition with products made by non-imprisoned paid labor.
Having expanded into providing food services for U. S. prisons in the 1960s, Wackenhut in 1984 launched a subsidiary to design and manage jails and detention centers for the burgeoning private prison market.
It developed as a small market town, with some industry including the making of Japanware, and a notable prison.
On December 23, 2005, a Dutch court sentenced Frans van Anraat, a businessman who bought chemicals on the world market and sold them to Saddam's regime, to 15 years in prison.
Minkow opted to plead guilty to the conspiracy charge rather than face charges of securities fraud and market manipulation, which could have sent him to prison for life.
On June 1, 2004, he was sentenced to three years in prison for stock market fraud.
The market cross in the centre of the square was pulled down at the Reformation, and the iron cage for holding prisoners was replaced by a prison gatehouse at the western edge of town.
The pillory was on the market place, the prison at the castle and the gallows were at Tolochenaz.
No man would keep his hands off what was not his own when he could safely take what he liked out of the market, or go into houses and lie with any one at his pleasure, or kill or release from prison whom he would, and in all respects be like a god among men.
Punishment can range from losing their FFL ( and therefore the privilege to engage in any firearms-related business ), to fines and in severe cases, such as conspiring to supply the criminal element with black market weaponry, imprisonment in a Federal prison.
In contrast, a Bureau of Justice Statistics ( BJS ) report on “ Firearms Use by Offenders ” found that only 0. 8 % of prison inmates reported acquiring firearms used in their crimes " At a gun show ," with repeat offenders less likely than first-time offenders to report acquiring firearms from a retail source, gun show or flea market.
On 29 March 1951, Boganda was sentenced to two months in prison following his arrest on 10 January for " endangering the peace " after intervening in a local market dispute ( the " Bokanga incident " in Lobaye ).
Luis Flores initially recruited violent members to the gang in an attempt to create a highly-feared organization which could control the black market activities of the Deuel prison facilities.
Except for a short period in the late 1990s, when the labor market was so tight that the Wall Street Journal reported on employer efforts to reach out to felons, those leaving prison have faced formidable obstacles to employment.
Max took the job by chance, following his recent prison term for stock market fraud.
While serving a sentence for car theft in federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, Lehder decided that, upon his release, he would take advantage of the burgeoning market for cocaine in the United States and enlisted his bunkmate, former marijuana dealer George Jung, as a future partner.
Male prisoners worked in the market gardens outside the prison walls while female prisoners worked in the gaol's laundry.

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