TWO years ago, with Internet merchants projecting losses well into the foreseeable future, it seemed the only consumer-oriented companies that might actually profit from the World Wide Web were portals like Yahoo and America Online, the popular gateways to the Internet.
By the smooth standards of earlier Merchant Ivory projects, "Le Divorce" is a halting affair.
This includes displaying price and availability options based on a customer's purchase history and the merchant's projected occupancy.
Whether in the service of Allah or no, as merchant his project could never have been free of personal economic interest.
The Merchants were discussing music projects with Anjula Acharia-Bath of DesiHits.com, when they came to learn that Gaga, who did not have much reach within the Indian diaspora, was interested in a Bollywood remix for "Born This Way".
Livingston merchants support the project, said Beth Lippman, executive director of the Livingston Community Partnership Management Corporation, which runs the township's business improvement district.
The largest of those, Osprey, is backed by assets that include European power projects, North American "merchant" energy investments and 25percentt of an investment in Brazilian energy assets, the executives said.
He had been stripped of his committee chairmanship -- a huge blow for any member, but particularly for Studds, who used his top post on the House merchant marine subcommittee to secure projects for his district.
From 1991, during semi-retirement, he worked as a consultant to Ring, McAfee & Company Inc. in the areas of project finance and merchant banking.
When, in the early 1990's, the village started drawing up plans with the merchants for even bigger beach projects perched on concrete platforms along the beach, the environmentalists sprang into action.
