But I think of airlines as packagers of seats, a perishable commodity like bananas.

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Some would argue the problem was that the packagers of credit snookered the credit rating agencies leading up to the credit crisis.

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Mortgage banks and Wall Street packagers of securities knew that Fannie and Freddie were there to buy whatever questionable stuff they offered up.

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The two or three packagers broke down the pot into 1.5- and 2-gram parcels, which were placed in plastic canisters and labeled according to type.

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Packagers like TCW and Pimco were putting these questionable securities in packages to be sold on to others and receiving substantial fees for being the middleman.

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Bradley told TIME recently that he intended to "run a campaign that's not packaged, " yet he'd already been meeting with his packagers for more than a year by then.

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Investors will sue the investment banks and the packagers.

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The behavior of mortgage bankers and of Wall Street packagers of subprime mortgages, as well as the excesses and misuses of exotic instruments, will be grist for investigators and writers for decades to come.

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