Word: middleman
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...bureau before then. ?We do not sell telecommunications information any more,? he said. Martin's firm, however, is being sued by the Illinois Attorney General for obtaining and selling phone records without the consumer's consent. With regard to these charges, Martin contends that ARI is simply a middleman: "We have certification from all our researchers that everything they do is legal and they don?t tell me how they...
...takes time to find the right one and to see results," Staffaroni says. Britain started slowly but is now the No. 2 market in Europe, while sales in Russia have increased for three years. Within five years, the company hopes to distribute directly in Europe, eliminating the middleman and boosting margins. Longer term, the company wants to control distribution in South America, Canada and Mexico...
...power, he worked hard to overcome their suspicion, only to find himself in the doghouse with the Shi'ites."He wants to be the hero," says Hamoodi. "He paid more attention to Sunni demands than he did to the Shi'ite demands. So he was no longer the middleman. He was just on the Sunni side...
...last week. Peretz promises a more conciliatory approach to the Palestinians than Sharon's. Opponents lampooned him during the campaign, saying it was impossible to imagine the roughhewn Peretz meeting with President Bush to discuss the peace process. But Peretz told TIME that he'll cut out the middleman and talk directly to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
Reed, a key Bush campaign strategist and the favorite in the 2006 race to become Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, was an obliging, even eager middleman, judging by e-mail exchanges between the two, which have been obtained by TIME. (The e-mails have attracted the interest of federal investigators already looking into whether Abramoff defrauded his Indian clients--a charge he denies.) Ten days after 9/11, for instance, Abramoff was promoting a business venture to rent cruise ships to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to billet rescue workers off New York City. Reed assured Abramoff...