Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government, which blames middlemen and profiteers for India's severe food shortage and disastrously mounting prices, gave strong backing to the consumer boycott. But the problems are, in part, of the government's own making, for it has done little or nothing to rationalize India's largely state-controlled economy, or to provide incentives and modern methods for Indian agriculture...
...store had been hit. This time, though, the take was more than $2,000,000. That made the Monte Carlo jewel robbery the biggest ever pulled off in Europe. But the thieves would probably clear no more than $300,000 after breaking up the gems and paying commissions to middlemen. In Europe as elsewhere, good fences rarely make good neighbors...
...version of The Connection inevitably lacks the incredible, searing emotional impact of the play. In the movie, the two cameramen play a central role. Everything is seen through their eyes and lenses and it is only through them that the junkies can speak to their anonymous audience. Middlemen sap the film's power...
Each of these middlemen is assigned by the exchange to "specialize" in several stocks and stabilize their prices by buying when prices are falling sharply and selling when they are rising swiftly. On the New York Stock Exchange where they account for 30% of all transactions 353 specialists belong to 107 firms. Each firm usually handles 12 to 15 issues, though the biggest-Adler, Coleman...
...among Indonesia's 97 million which by hard work and nimble brain has extracted wealth from the overheated, forested archipelago of President Sukarno. The racial bitterness beats even Birmingham, for despite repeated government efforts to crack their economic power, the Chinese-sometimes operating through middlemen to circumvent official sanctions-still control trade, agriculture, small industry, the black market and other forms of commerce. "Go into even the smallest village in Indonesia," an Indonesian army officer once complained, "and you will find one man whose house has electric lights and a refrigerator. That man will be Chinese...