buy in lots

It is difficult to anticipate such things accurately, of course, particularly when buying in lots.

Altimeters could be bought in lots of 200 for around a dime each and propellers were going for around twenty-six cents.

"Only two sacks of mostly white dress shirts and dark slacks you apparently are urged to buy in lots of 10, plus lace-up shoes - all black."

Olde, by contrast, has made a name for itself with a staff of stock pickers who research "special venture" stocks that customers can buy in lots of 1,000 and more without commissions, in a program called "Smart Trading."

Near the close of trading, just less than $700 million worth of stock was bought in lots of fewer than 10,000 shares, said Laszlo Birinyi, whose firm, Birinyi & Associates, tracks market developments.

To compete, Mr. Cunningham says, he buys in lots that are as large as possible, but is limited because he cannot afford to insure the stock - already he stores more merchandise than he can afford to lose.

Perhaps panthers would be a better comparison, as his uniform was the midnight black of the Space Legion-a color chosen not for its aesthetic or camouflage value as much as the fact the dye could hide the origins of any military surplus uniform bought in lots by the budget-strapped Legion.