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...today's layoffs, even for companies trying to do right. Dell isn't a Rust Belt dinosaur or a business-plan-and-a-prayer dotcom. Its workers helped write one of the great business success stories of modern times. Dell was founded in 1984 to sell computers without a middleman (Direct from Dell, the ads said). Its hyperefficient model helped it pass Compaq to become North America's largest PC manufacturer. Nor is Dell's good news all behind it. Just last Thursday, Dell almost single-handedly ran the Dow up 400 points when it confirmed that first-quarter profit...
...pound of coffee that we pay between $5 and $14 for, the commodity exchange says that farmers should get 60 cents a pound. That's what the exporters get paid. But farmers on the open market only get 20 to 40 cents per pound after the middleman," Brody says...
...pilot program-10-15 unit blocks in new areas like Dorchester and Watertown-marks a new approach to affiliated housing by the University. In the past, Harvard has not served as a middleman, and graduate housing has either been owned by the University or directly offered by outside landlords...
...GoodFellas a few times, pours pizazz all over the project to keep the 30-year saga moving. In Johnny Depp he has a star who can commandeer the camera, however flimsy George's motives are. Depp gets some smart support from Paul Reubens as the world's friendliest, queeniest middleman, and Bobcat Goldthwaite as a chemist floored by the quality of the product ("I can't feel my face!"). But painting the bigger picture is tough work. Blow works for a scene or two, then stalls. That's the nature of a story that is episodic but not epic...
Responsible music aficionados should hasten the destruction of the musical middleman, but not at the expense of the artist. The rebels ought to use their positions of leadership in the cyber domain to create a viable direct music market, allowing the entire profit margin to be kept (at will) by the artists themselves...