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...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...
...their advice. Many of the consultants worked in procurement and retain close contacts with their former colleagues. They know both the procedural intricacies of how contracts are processed and the technical needs of the services. "You almost have to be an insider to understand it," says Spratt. Without these middlemen, the military's complex procurement system might not work...
Operation Ill Wind targets some 100 military buyers, suppliers and greedy middlemen in one of the largest U. S. cases of white- collar crime. -- House Speaker Jim Wright turns the sleaze issue bipartisan. -- Howard Baker resigns as chief of staff in a White House that seems ready to turn out its lights. -- The worst drought since 1934 withers much of the West, Great Plains and South...