Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprised if you were to investigate the significance of the name, "Coop" derives from "cooperative society," and a quick look in webster's tells us that the phrase "Cooperative society" designates "any association for buying and selling to the better advantage of its members or participants by elimination of middlemen's profits." Cooperative societies buy in large quantities at wholesale prices like retail outlets, but while retail outlets price goods to make a profit, cooperatives sell at cost to save their members' money. Food co-ops, for example, often save members 40 percent off retail...
...tier system in which American investors will continue to pay taxes on bond earnings while foreigners will not. For this reason, John Heimann, former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, calls the tax repeal a "cynical decision" that invites abuses. American drug dealers and other tax dodgers could use foreign middlemen to invest their cash tax-free in U.S. bonds...
According to the FBI's 341 -page affidavit, Badalamenti and his deputies in Sicily purchased opium from Pakistan and Afghanistan, oversaw its production into heroin, then exported it to the U.S. There Bonanno-family members, including Alfano and his fellow restaurateurs in the Midwest, acted as middlemen. Finally, the money was collected by the Catalano Mob faction and laundered through prestigious New York City brokerage houses...
...poaching has become a growth industry, taken over by gangs who shanghai salmon the way more conventional bandits rob banks. Today's poachers use radio-equipped lookouts to check for water bailiffs, sophisticated systems of decoy cars to deploy their forces and middlemen to market their take. The object: big catches, swiftly and efficiently distributed. The only weapon the government men have is a truncheon, which, under antiquated rules, can be drawn only in self-defense. The poachers, meanwhile, sport a growing assortment of weapons...
...teacher of Proust, Austen, Donne, Faulkner, Joyce? Are not the writers the teachers themselves? Oh, one can see the need for a tour guide now and then: notes, terms, some scraps of biography. But surely the great books were written for people, and if they require the presence of middlemen, then they could never have been so great in the first place. So goes the cant...