Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staunch supporter of financial aid," Bok said. "He cut the cost of student aid by developing direct lending for the students, thereby cutting out the middlemen...
...legal battle over who should control tickets and prices comes at a time when fans are already fed up with the scalping that can drive up prices for the most desirable tickets to several times their face value as they are resold, often more than once, by middlemen. These operators are a mix of quick-buck artists at street level, high-priced attorneys who speculate in tickets for profits, corporate executives trading favors, music-industry insiders and Mafiosi who control key blocks of tickets and take a cut of the inflated price. While Pearl Jam is pointing the finger...
...warmaking capacity to be blunted once and for all, Saddam has gone back to business as usual. In defiance of U.N. sanctions that ban nonhumanitarian trade and clamp an embargo on arms sales to Baghdad, he is working to rebuild his military and industrial might. Helping him are middlemen, front companies, compliant neighbors and Western businessmen eager to reforge commercial contacts with a big potential customer and the possessor of the world's second-largest oil reserves...
TIME traced one secret multimillion-dollar sale of osmium 187, a by-product of nuclear reactors that is not weapons related but is an extremely expensive metal with applications in nuclear-energy production. The middlemen in the deal included a former party official and a member of the KGB, who acquired the element worth $40,000 a gram from the factory and sold it to a Swedish company for $70,000 -- though it is not clear whether the profits went into private pockets or the depleted coffers...
...buyers take the most profitable -- and dangerous -- route of traveling directly to the mining cities to find a contact and cut a deal without middlemen. After weeks of travel, we knew how risky that could be, but we had also discovered that the KGB was running most of the clandestine trade to generate hard currency to help support the secret-police agency. "The KGB has no real mission anymore. Its budget has been slashed, and Yeltsin has signaled a purge is on the way," explained a Western intelligence source. "But conservatives in the defense establishment believe...