Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Time. Until now, American businessmen have been afraid that their Stateside customers might not like the idea of their doing business with the Chinese Communists. As a result, most of the deals made by U.S. subsidiaries so far have been concluded quietly. Representatives of U.S. firms use Chinese-speaking middlemen who operate primarily out of Austria, Switzerland, Britain, Australia and Japan. The middlemen bargain with officials of Chinese state enterprises, while the U.S. clients hide out in hotel rooms. The bargaining, as many impatient Americans have learned, is often long and drawn...
...made an even more startling turnabout. Last month Kuala Lumpur accepted its first Chinese Red Cross flood aid; last week it rolled out the red carpet for a sellout tour by the popular Communist Chinese Silver Star Cultural Troupe. With Rumania and other third-party countries acting as the middlemen, Malaysia's pragmatic new Premier Tun Abdul Razak has begun indirect negotiations with China, offering to open trade and diplomatic relations in return for Peking's promise not to support Malaysia's holdout guerrillas. He has already faced the wrenching decision forced by the "two Chinas" situation...
...people whom Harris questioned do not even think of themselves as suburbanites. More often, they would say that they live in a small city, a town or even a rural area. Yet in the broader sense they are true suburbanites, living between city and countryside, geographically the middlemen between densely populated urban cores and the expanses of what remains of rural, smalltown America...
...Medical Middlemen. Even today, most U.S. hospitals follow the practice of extending staff privileges to private physicians, who may then admit their own patients or refer them to other private specialists on the staff. But the Bassett set out to be more than a medicine middleman for private practice. The hospital put its staff members on the payroll and became the primary provider of health care in Cooperstown. Now patients seeking attention can go directly to one of the hospital's seven specialty clinics or be referred from the general services department. Doctors treating patients in one department...
Under questioning, the suspect-whom Thompson does not want identified-revealed the whereabouts of two "fences"-middlemen who deal in stolen property. One "fence," who had jumped bail and was named in four separate warrants, was arrested the following day and is now being held on $5000 bail...