This is the largest set of codes.
What we have is a new set of middlemen, the crowdfunding services, who skim off a percentage of each successfully funded project.
Instead, they rely on two formidable sets of middlemen: a few giant group-purchasing organizations that negotiate high-volume contracts, and a few giant distributors that buy and store medical supplies and deliver them to hospitals.
Some of the poachers are recruited from local communities as trackers, but they are but the tip of a larger network of middlemen and traffickers that leads to the markets in China, the United States, and elsewhere.
This is all about spending taxpayer money, and the question is whether that money should be spent directly to help people or run through a set of private middlemen.
A work of art has to circulate through a sub-economy of exchange operated by a large and growing class of middlemen: publishers, curators, producers, publicists, philanthropists, foundation officers, critics, professors, and so on.
She likes to balance her love of cold drinks with her enjoyment of setting up pointlessly long chains of middlemen ("Pls call Sarah and ask her if she can make me some iced tea," 30 September 2009).
But wood can be chopped, sliced, and pulverized in countless ways, by any number of middlemen, and large quantities of stolen timber end up in the West as finished products.
Ghiya cultivated dozens of middlemen throughout India.
"Disintermediation" is the removal of middlemen.
