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After painting the likeness of a Florentine cloth merchant's wife, the artist kept the piece rather than turning it over to the client.

The Changing Face of Portraits Ellen Gamerman 2011

After painting the likeness of a Florentine cloth merchant's wife, the artist kept the piece rather than turning it over to the client.

Does This Statue Make Me Look Short? 2011

If you don't put your heart into it or don't make it worth the merchant's while, the price stays high.

Learning The Art Of 'Barguing' Roxana Popescu 2010

Target posted a 4.1% rise in same-store sales, at the high end of the mass merchant's range and with 3.7% expected by analysts.

July Retail Sales: Warm, Not Hot Karen Talley 2011

You can move mountains or rivers to lower that price, but ultimately it's the merchant's call.

Learning The Art Of 'Barguing' Roxana Popescu 2010

French Clockmaker sign: a reproduction of an old French merchant's sign

French Word-A-Day: 2009

Now imagine that instead of not merely recognizing the merchant's agreements, the governments tried to suppress the merchants 'business entirely.

A Theory of Government, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

"The token is held by the merchant's infrastructure," says Neil Cohen, Akamai's director of product marketing, about the service.

Akamai unveils payment card tokenization service Ellen Messmer 2010

It's like the old merchant's saying about advertising -- 50% of all the money I spend on advertsising is wasted; I just don't know which 50% -- except it's even more true.

Ezra and Elasticity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Also worth a visit: The Peabody Essex Museum 161 Essex St., 1-978-745-9500, www.pem.org , especially the maritime history gallery and the fascinating Yin Yu Tang house, a 200-year-old Chinese merchant's home transported from China and painstakingly reassembled.

Massachusetts's North Shore Stephanie Simon 2011