Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Health-care reform is overdue. Relief from pain, suffering and fear of death carries a price as a free-market product. But the real buyers are the government and health-insurance middlemen. American health care comprises an elaborate structure. Backstage, courageous nurses and ethical physicians keep things from falling apart. Reforming America's most powerful cartel requires enormous political courage. Wallowing with Kenneth Starr is safer. THOMAS A. MCGOFF Moscow...
...arrangement with existing cellular dealers turns out to be a serendipitous marriage of marketing and technology. Without resellers, customers would be few, and without cell technology, service would be limited. At first Iridium planned a purist, sky-to-ground approach that would have cut out the local cellular-network middlemen. But that wasn't very feasible in the glass-and-steel canyons of bustling cities, where customers would be out of the line of sight of the heavens and service would be spotty. (Imagine explaining to an irked CEO that his pricey new handset won't work from his office...
...geeks have usurped an old financial term, disintermediation, and given it a new meaning to describe what happened to Britannica. To them it means the removal of middlemen, the intermediaries who smooth the operation of any economy--folks like travel agents, stockbrokers, car dealers and traveling salesmen. These people are the grease of a consumer economy, the folks who help you do things more efficiently than you could do them alone. But that's all changing: the Net is creating a new, self-service economy. Gates, who was late in recognizing the value of the Net, nonetheless has come...
...member, Stephen Young was heartbroken. When he learned how the triggerman got the gun, he was furious. The Bryco 9-mm semiautomatic handgun that killed Andrew Young was one of 40 weapons a suburban gun shop sold to a single purchaser. In gun lingo these are "straw buyers," shady middlemen who do a brisk business reselling guns to convicted felons, minors and others with itchy trigger fingers but no legal right to own a gun. "You want to tell me this guy needs 40 guns for self-protection?" asks Young. "The gun industry knows what's going...
Nine months after evidence of foreign cash in U.S. politics surfaced in the last days of the 1996 campaign, Americans know that both Democrats and Republicans were so desperate for the unrestricted dole of "soft money" that they went overseas to find more. Either directly or through middlemen, both parties turned to Overseas Chinese businessmen with large commercial interests in the People's Republic of China for multimillion-dollar cash infusions. Both parties gave their benefactors a fair hearing on party trade policy toward China, and both maintained elaborate ruses to hide their new sources of cash. Yet the Democrats...