Airbus points the finger at Boeing's aggressive use of vendor financing to boost sales.

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Armed with a new Sprint contract, Clearwire can also obtain vendor financing for some of that network rebuild.

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Go ahead and ask for vendor financing, but be ready to show that it's not needed to make payroll.

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Vendor financing will be an important source of funds, since equipment costs for Alpha will run into millions of dollars.

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The hot tech stock grew lightning fast in 1990s by extending vendor financing to its customers that used the cheap credit to purchase boatloads of Motorola products.

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This unusual arrangement is known as "vendor financing".

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But it has been fueled by exports that have been driven by the single-currency and a kind of vendor financing that saw German banks extend credit to so-called peripheral European nations, which bought German goods.

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