In this system, dealers may sell only the particular make of new car specified in their franchise, must accept a quota of cars specified by the manufacturer, and must pay cash on delivery.
"In order to skirt the system, dealers alter the molecular structure by adding other substances to it," Carter said.
The Panasonic PT-AE3000 LCD home theater projector will be made in Japan, available starting in October 2008 to authorized presentation systems dealers with an MSRP of $3,499.
(In 1968, the N.R.A. supported a gun-control act that introduced a licensing system for dealers).
"We were not subsidising farmers".So he has introduced a system whereby dealers accept vouchers as payment for fertiliser.
Correction: August 26 , 2001 Sunday An article last Sunday about Cellport Systems, a maker of voice-activated wireless phone technology for cars, included a supplier erroneously among those that have relationships with Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar and BMW to supply systems as dealer options.
It also supported the 1934 National Firearms Act — the first major federal gun-control legislation — and the 1938 Federal Firearms Act, which together created a licensing system for dealers and prohibitively taxed the private ownership of automatic weapons ("machine guns").
While other companies -- most notably Motorola and Nokia -- already have relationships with Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar and BMW to provide voice-activated phone systems as dealer options, Cellport's advantage is the near universality of the pocket adapters.
Last year General Motors installed a new ordering system for dealers, and the mess cost GM a couple of billion dollars in sales.
So it's no surprise that veterans I talk to at all levels of the system -- dealers, users, cops, judges and jailers -- all look at me with world-weary pity when I idealistically suggest that an end to the war might be in sight.
