They suggested that their companies buy certain West German equipment, and since the nomenklatura served as middlemen in the deal, they benefited from a huge markup.

Then they haul the guns back to New York and sell them illegally on the street at huge markups.

What sets the Volga Auto Works apart is that nearly half of the 700,000 cars made here annually have been sold abroad in recent years, at huge markups.

Some may wonder how this lesson relates to the fortunes of wildly successful companies like Intel and Rolex, which charge huge markups.

A persuasive study by the RAND Corporation argues that because drug dealers charge such huge markups, they easily absorb the cost increases forced by stepped-up interdiction.

The segment from Beijing to UB is the most expensive because you MUST use an agency and there is a huge markup for this ticket.

This practice of offering wines at huge markups also serves to reinforce the mistaken notion that wine is only for the elite and the superrich.

Mr. Ruder said brokerage firms often make huge markups on the stock and use high-pressure sales tactics over the phone, promising very high returns to investors.

Most optical stores have a huge markup on frames, in the range of 50 percent to 100 percent.

But now jobless men stand by the lines of cars and offer to sell gas from plastic jerrycans at huge markups - sometimes five times the stations' rate.