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...were slipping behind and finding it increasingly difficult to stay on the farm. We had to change our operation somehow to eliminate the middlemen. We thought about strawberries but I like growing corn so we decided to try cereal," the 51-year-old Grubb said...
High-tech spying can seem relatively innocuous, at least to those predisposed not to ask too many questions. The Soviets regularly use European middlemen to buy high-tech gadgetry, which itself often seems harmless. "People rationalize," says Herbert Clough, a security consultant. "This little thing can't do any damage. It won't start World...
...some 400 dummy corporations in Europe to buy high-tech exports. The Soviets can rely on dozens of unscrupulous Western technobandits eager to cash in on the Kremlin's 500% markups by acting as middlemen. So numerous and willing are the technobandits that the Soviets are able to get three or four bids for a single transaction. A valuable piece of high-tech gadgetry can sail a circuitous route before it "jumps the wall," in Customs agents' parlance, to the East bloc. Last month U.S. marshals arrested Marino Pradetto, 46, the Italian operator of a West German electronics firm...
...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...