Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy animal to kill. Many cats in the Ranthambhore park have died from poison that villagers sprinkled on animals that the tigers had killed and temporarily left on the ground. Other cats have fallen victim to the hunters of the Mogiya tribes, who pack high- powered rifles and shotguns. Middlemen pay them $100 to $300 per animal (a huge amount in an area where an average wage...
...weak." In Malanje government employees steal and sell medical supplies intended for the hospital. Bandits have been making off with an estimated third of the U.N.'s food aid as soon as it hits the ports. There is profiteering in the refugee camps by local chiefs appointed as middlemen in the food-distribution chain. "Given the hardships of everyday life here, they don't see anything wrong with what they are doing," says a relief official...
...post-channel world, the traditional broadcast networks (and cable networks too) could, if they're not careful, start to look like superfluous middlemen. ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox might want to indicate combination of functions simply turn into producer distributors with a familiar brand name. (Partly in anticipation of that day, the networks are fighting to be freed from government regulations that have prevented them from owning more than a small portion of the programs they air. They won a victory last week when the Federal Communications Commission significantly relaxed those restrictions.) Predicts W. Russell Neuman, author of The Future...
MacArthur never seems to grasp the full significance of what the Pentagon actually did during the war, which is equivalent to what Ross Perot is doing in peacetime. By using live TV to reach the public, generals and their overseers could bypass the reporting process, cut out the middlemen, and thus avoid tough questions and independent opinion. Once upon a time, the public counted on reporters to journey to war for them. Satellite TV lets the public believe it has taken that journey for itself...
That Perot has a penchant for getting involved in secret activities seems undeniable. He put up the money for some of Oliver North's efforts to buy the freedom of American hostages in the Middle East (and lost at least $300,000 that was taken by middlemen who disappeared). In 1981 Perot agreed to a suggestion by agents of the U.S. Customs Service that he finance a drug sting in the Caribbean. The idea was to set up a landing strip on a foreign-owned island where agents would gather information on drug-carrying flights that would be induced...