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...McFarlane resigned and was replaced by Poindexter. Two days later, McFarlane traveled to London to meet with a group of middlemen variously identified as Kimche, Nimrodi and Ghorbanifar. He claims he distrusted these contacts and recommended that the Administration drop any plans for arms sales to Iran. On the same day in Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger persuaded Reagan to hold a meeting to discuss the NSC's proposal to sell arms directly to Iran. Six months earlier, when Weinberger received a CIA report favoring weapons deals with the Iranian army, he penciled...
...British-Dutch consortium.) In 1983 the American Lever Bros. was enjoying splashy sales of its Shield deodorant soap and Sunlight dishwashing detergent when products with the same names began appearing at discount prices. Manufactured by the British Lever Bros., the soaps had been shipped to the U.S. by unauthorized middlemen. The U.S. firm complains that the British products have proved unsuited to American tastes and have thus driven away customers, costing it $5 million in sales. One charge: the British Shield is less effective at stopping...
...middlemen--relaying information to the Admissions Office from the Asian-American community and vice-versa...
...only one of a growing number of middlemen in the airline industry. Like GPA, which is privately held, most are obscure. International Lease Finance (1985 sales: $81.2 million), for example, was begun in 1973 by three Hungarian immigrants who now employ ten staffers in a Beverly Hills office suite. But these lessors have become familiar faces at Boeing, the giant Seattle aircraft manufacturer. In 1980 only four of Boeing's 316 orders were placed by leasing companies; during the first half of 1986, their share skyrocketed to 109 out of 247. Overall, more than $10 billion worth of aircraft will...
...short-term agreements that allow customers to bail out in five years if necessary. In contrast, the granddaddy of the industry, a subsidiary of General Electric called GE Credit, has traditionally signed leases of up to 20 years. James Ozanne, a GE Credit senior vice president, warns that middlemen who peddle short-term leases could eventually become saddled with aging aircraft that cannot be resold. Nonetheless, Ozanne admits, the boom in short- term renting has spurred GE Credit (1985 revenues: $2.9 billion) to begin offering five-year leases...