Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...permanently tied down by not one but two armies of officials belonging to the separate state and Communist Party bureaucracies. In everyday life a Soviet citizen needs written permission for everything, from changing a job or apartment to getting a hotel room. Industry and agriculture are similarly stifled. Professional middlemen and grafters, adept at short-cutting the paper work and expediting anything from steel supplies to beefsteak, flourish illegally in the crevices of this creaking structure. But for most Soviet citizens there is no short cut through the numbing, frustrating maze of controls. The majority simply endure with apathy...
...shipped to the U.S. at the higher Venezuelan price. In a typical case, $6 residual oil, used to fire utility boilers, was resold at $ 17 and later soared to $23 and $24 during the embargo crisis. Another apparent pattern: passing oil through as many as half a dozen middlemen, some of them nonexistent "sham corporations "-with the price going up each time...
...place of the shuttle now is unclear. Israeli officials last week suggested a revival of proximity talks similar to those held in Secretary of State William Rogers' day. Egyptian and Israeli ambassadors, or even foreign ministers, might resume negotiations in Washington with State Department officials serving as middlemen. Far likelier is a resumption of the suspended peace talks in Geneva. That is the aim of the Soviets, who have not interfered with Kissinger's step-by-step talks as long as they did not rule out a later Geneva meeting in which Moscow would be a participant. Kissinger...
...News, the whole affair seems out of character. But late last week Free Press editors had another chance. City Editor Larry Jolidan was in Executive Editor Kurt Luedtke's office arranging a meeting with some local milk companies that were angry about a Free Press story on how middlemen are profiting from rising milk prices. Reporters were watching with undisguised interest for the outcome of that session...
...draw White House attention to the cattlemen's plight. Caught between soaring feed-grain prices and depressed wholesale prices for their beef, farmers claim that they are losing money and in some cases facing bankruptcy. (Consumers have hardly noticed much drop in meat prices, but farmers suspect middlemen of raising their profit margins unjustifiably.) The farmers want relief in the form of emergency loans or reduced meat imports to kick up prices further. Some even call for the resignation of Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who they feel does not support their interests...