This advice certainly applies to parents whose children are wild to take a trip a friend is selling: legitimate operators will accept at least one type of credit card.

"I want to say up front that there are many, many legitimate operators, you are among them, providing legitimate services to your customers," the senator said.

It threatened manufacturers with the seizure of clothing produced by exploited labor, unless they could show they were making honest efforts to buy only from legitimate operators.

This would benefit legitimate extended-stay operators if it allowed them to operate in any of the residential districts where apartment hotels are already allowed.

Several industry executives said the questionable contractors made it hard for legitimate operators to bid low enough to win contracts at Wal-Mart.

The authorities also would protect legitimate operators as well as workers' safety.

Committee investigators suggest it's because the legitimate operators like AT&T and Verizon benefit from the scams.

Some of these are legitimate operators, but others are not, the officials say.

A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

The same equipment that cellular thieves use is sold to legitimate cellular operators for establishing customer service and maintaining the networks.