Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arming the group is an expensive business. K.L.A. purchasers are buying not factory direct but from shady middlemen who see the war as a perfect chance for price gouging. Says a spokesman: "An AK-47 normally costs $100, but we always end up paying at least double." That is nothing compared with the cost for mortars and other ammunition, let alone for the high-tech antitank weapons the K.L.A. at Kosare needs. New K.L.A. recruits are flea-market soldiers, carrying illegally acquired (or stolen) guns and identified by K.L.A. shoulder patches made in Germany. Heavier weapons come largely from East...
...Netscape wasn't just another Silicon Valley software company, any more than Apple is just another computer maker. Netscape stood for something grand, something transcendental and empowering. It gave people the tools to communicate their ideas cheaply or sell their stuff to anyone on the planet without going through middlemen, censors, gatekeepers or even...
...result is an industry that deviates from the typical free market, filled with middlemen who lack incentive to lower prices, maintained by a group of student consumers held captive to their syllabi...
Students, the manager says, end up footing the bill for this collection of middlemen...
...market has never been entirely responsive to its final consumers, since parents are required middlemen. But kids have probably never been so far removed from the creation of a toy fad as with Furbies...