Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people they know, meaning other Colombians. A prospective wholesale buyer must establish his bona fides at an audience with top management in Cali. If he is approved, he is not required to pay cash up front. He will send the cartel payment after he resells the drugs to middlemen. The wholesale buyer must put up collateral, cash or deeds to real property as insurance if he is caught. He must also provide human collateral in the form of his family in Colombia, who will pay with their lives if he ever turns informer...
...Review, slips behind enemy lines on campus. In fact, he boasts that "I can still pass for a student." Maybe so, but his interview style is that of a patronizing pedant. At Stanford, D'Souza confronts a black undergraduate woman with a scholarly account of the complicity of African middlemen in sending their compatriots to the New World in bondage. "((She)) became very quiet and did not say anything for several seconds," D'Souza notes proudly. "She now seemed aware of the implications of the term slave trade." True, there are occasional wry moments. Stanley Fish, the avant-garde chairperson...
...million Taiwanese have visited China, while 50,000 Chinese have sneaked into Taiwan for jobs. Such exchanges create opportunities for black marketeers, who have taken advantage of the new "mainland fever" sweeping the acquisitive Taiwanese. Black-market deals, particularly for pelts, can be conducted only through a series of middlemen. Each person provides an introduction to the next link in the human chain, then extracts a fee for the service. Ultimately the Taiwanese meet the Chinese on the muddy, gray waters of the Taiwan Strait. Often the pelts, along with Chinese antiques and traditional medicines, are traded by fishermen...
...over Iraq's grievances. Even the international peace conference that Saddam posits as a price for leaving Kuwait is possible -- or at least the promise of such a meeting is. The U.S. desire to avoid linkage is basically a semantic exercise, and the offers of explicit linkage carried by middlemen like the French and the Algerians could at any time be used by Saddam to save face. Were he to decide to leave Kuwait, the list of creative ways for the Iraqi leader to portray himself heroically is virtually limitless -- and some in Washington indicate that an attack...
...staggering. The average annual income of Soviets is only 250 rubles, and so few can afford the luxury of tomatoes at 10 rubles for about two pounds, or beef at 30 rubles a cut. Peasants gripe that free markets in Moscow are under the control of black- marketeering middlemen from the Caucasian republics who are deliberately limiting supplies to keep prices high. Managers of state-run shops also hold back scarce goods from open sale and make a hefty profit by selling them out the back door...