Word: middleman
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...purse may eventually prove to be mere mad money. Before he broke camp in Pennsylvania, he was visited by Mandungu Bula Nyati, Foreign Minister of Zaïre. Bula helped promote Ali's "Rumble in the Jungle" against Foreman. He now wants to establish Ali as the middleman in all business deals between Zaïre and U.S. firms. Ali's share could reach $100 million a year...
...second Durkin campaign has benefited only a little from what in other states would be a political godsend--Wyman is presently under investigation by the Justice department for his role as a middleman in the deal to make Mrs. Ruth Farkas ambassador to Luxembourg in return for a six figure contribution to the Committee to Relect the President in 1972. Wyman, who has virtually acknowledged the legitimacy of the charges, has been kept very much on the defensive on this issue, claiming simply, "I don't believe I broke any laws." But polls indicate that New Hampshire voters, who never...
...crying wolf." The Governor complicated matters further by appointing William Singer, a former alderman who tried to unseat Mayor Richard Daley in last winter's Democratic primary, to head a task force investigating the school board's budget. That infuriated Daley, who has stepped in as the middleman and successfully mediated previous teachers' strikes; he has decided to remain on the sidelines at least temporarily. Finally, Chicago's teachers voted to strike by an overwhelming 21,439-to-2,537 margin...
Singapore's role as "middleman" in the region, has frequently, and correctly, been seen as an exploitative one, leading to recent boycotts of its commercial facilities--for example, by the Malaysian pepper export trade. This "shrinking of the hinterland" may well be a long-term trend, but the government feels it may be able to forestall by always keeping a few steps ahead of her neighbors so that they will have to continue to be dependent on Singapore's "sophisticated" commercial and financial services...
...East St. Louis weekly, did not take Merritts' warning seriously enough: he became an outspoken critic of board policies. But Merritts apparently had been in deadly earnest. In September a federal grand jury charged that he had conspired to kill Jordan, using a St. Louis advertising salesman as middleman. The purported plot fell through when Merritts and the salesman tried to hire an undercover FBI agent as the triggerman. "They let a blond, blue-eyed agent pass himself off as a member of the Sicilian Mafia," said U.S. Attorney Henry Schwarz, who is prosecuting the case against Merritts...