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...anyone in history, says several of his finds came from such dealers. "I don't feel good when I buy fossils, so I'm trying to step away from this market," he says. Although sales of dinosaurs are strictly illegal, local officials tend to look the other way. "The middlemen and authorities are in bed together," says Zhang Wanlian, a retired reporter for the Chaoyang Daily, who has investigated the local fossil trade for the past decade. "The officials receive money, and even fossils, so they ignore the situation...
...system is a legacy of the 1940s and '50s, when chronic food shortages led the government to crack down on hoarding of produce by unscrupulous cartels. In 1966 the government introduced a new law that banned farmers from dealing directly with retailers and forced them to sell through licensed middlemen, called mandis. The law, which also aimed to give farmers a fair and consistent price, "was initially done with a good purpose," says Arpita Mukherjee, a senior fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, a New Delhi-based think tank. But over the years it grew...
...stores to take on Reliance, has drawn protests, including a demonstration last February in which a generic Wal-Mart executive was burned in effigy, even before the opening of the first store. (Wal-Mart said it would not comment for this story.) Earlier this month, thousands of vegetable-selling middlemen in Ranchi, a city in eastern India, attacked three recently opened Reliance stores, which they say are putting them out of business. "We are being strangled by the capitalists," one of the protesters told a local newspaper. "After Reliance began to pay the farmers more, we also now have...
...government is contemplating the introduction of a single nationwide sales tax that would replace state taxes complicating distribution. It is also now talking about building its own massive cold-storage facilities outside major cities such as New Delhi to spur the transition to a more efficient supply chain. While middlemen may be feeling the pinch, farmers selling to Reliance say they're happy to be paid in cash as soon as they hand over their goods. "We were dealing with thieves who always used to cheat us," says Karnataka grape farmer Veeranna Gowda. "But we Indians believe in rebirth...
...than the government to provide health care, as certainly everything we've seen indicates that national health plans increase costs and decrease quality. I would expand health savings accounts, both who can get them and how much you can put into them. The goal is to get as few middlemen in the process as possible. Health saving acconts allow that to occur for a lot less money. Then I say, you reduce the number of illegal Immigrants in this country who are costing us billions by using our health care services and for the most part not paying for them...