Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...single motherhood, new concerns about infertility -- that people looking to become parents face a most intricate enterprise. Possessing a scarce resource, birth mothers can often dictate their terms; operating in a crowded marketplace, adoptive parents must be ingenious and relentless in their search and accommodating in their negotiations. As middlemen, the old-fashioned agencies must now compete with newfangled lawyers and adoption consultants. Sometimes, as with Nicole, the groundwork is laid by an organization with a radical new approach known as "cooperative adoption." Most of the participants have a standard, emphatic defense for the various practices they promote...
...squandered foreign loans and subsidized shipyards, steel mills and coal mines. In an age when information and high technology are the driving force of economic growth, Poland is saddled with a string-and-can phone system and a work force that spends much of its time moonlighting as middlemen for goods and services that no one is producing...
...There's room for more family farms, not less. You can make money on 40 acres." Hightower has encouraged farmers to adopt organic growing methods and to handle the processing of their products so they can keep more of the 75 cents of every food dollar that goes to middlemen. Hightower has also urged growers to diversify into potentially lucrative crops ranging from pinto beans to blueberries to wine grapes. He has even encouraged farmers to raise crayfish in their ponds...
...ruling Politburo have been able to fend off unpalatable reforms in large part because of huge subsidies from West Germany: some $1 billion a year in bank credits and other transfers. East Germany also profits from back-door access to the rich European Community market through West German middlemen. The special treatment reflects West Germans' strong emotional bond with their countrymen across the Berlin Wall -- and deep-seated hopes that the two Germanys may one day be reunited...
...final destination of the chemicals before allowing them to leave the country. In the case of the chemicals seized in Colombia, however, most of the batch numbers on labels had been scratched off by knife blades. Given how successful drug lords have been in using a dizzying tangle of middlemen and front companies to hide their activities, law enforcement officials may never be able to halt fully the chemical side of the drug trade...