Finally, if you really zoomed in, there was a third kind of company: A tiny number of opaque commodity traders (Glencore, Vitol, and Trafigura, for example) who basically acted as middle-men between the first two.
Goldman acted as middle-man on $14 billion of that amount, after it took the risk of mortgage assets originated by other banks and insured all of it with AIG.
Under President Obama's leadership, Congress overhauled the college student loan program -- ending a flawed system that gave away billions in federal subsidies to private banks that simply acted as middle-men and putting those taxpayer dollars directly in the hands of students to pay for their education.
"Cadaver-service firms" (or body-brokers) act as middle men between donors and end-users.
It later acts as "middle man" in arbitrating enforcement issues between the landowners and the mine company.
Dry-bulk operators act as middle men, chartering ships from ship owners and then rechartering them to their customers as needed.
Two super PACs that act as "middle men" transferring donations from individuals to political committees were also omitted.
They will be able to do so so by applying to domain name registration services which will act as middle-men, charging a fee which will be shared with the owner.
Aides to Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, said his office had targeted for penalties firms that made payments to aides of former Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi, also a Democrat, as well as those that acted as unlicensed middle men, called placement agents, between public pensions and investment firms.
Into the void have poured all manner of theories and speculation, focusing not just on the Papini family but also on an anonymous donor who offered a six-figure sum for Papini's safe return, and on Cameron Gamble, a government security contractor living in the Redding area who acted as a middle man.
Mesopores act as smooth channels for the diffusion of middle distillate molecule.
