McDonald's is the nation's largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes - and the second largest purchaser of chicken.
For many years, New Delhi was Iran's second largest purchaser of Iranian crude, but was forced to curtail its imports as the result of U.S. and U.N sanctions targeting Iran's lucrative oil industry over Tehran's nuclear program.
Fast food companies have been putting more chicken on their menus, (McDonald's is the second largest purchaser of chicken in the country), and restaurants saw a 12percentt jump in menu items including chicken from 2009 and 2012.
Calpers's rates are closely watched since the system is the nation's third-largest purchaser of employee health benefits after the federal government and General Motors.
Calpers says it is the nation's third-largest purchaser of employee health benefits, after the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program and General Motors.
Most Americans own computers today because the government not only funded the research and development of microprocessors (as part of the space race) but also became the first large-scale purchaser of the devices.
PEPFAR was the first large-scale purchaser and it changed the market structure for first-line FDCs.
First, the government is the single largest purchaser of health care and health research in the United States.
Despite sharply falling oil exports in recent years, Venezuela is the fourth-largest foreign supplier to the United States, which remains the largest purchaser of Venezuelan crude.
