You sign up to take whatever price the middlemen set and that can be retrospective.
With no sense of the value of their crops beyond the confines of the region, farmers were forced to take the prices that the middlemen set with little room for barter, according to Aditya.
In the current study, however, researchers aimed effectively to cut out the middleman, setting the brain to the task of "whole-body navigation".
Isabel, 33, allegedly acted as a middleman, setting up four heroin deals worth $19,000 between the snitch and two Latin Kings from the Palm Beach tribe.
The team reluctantly works with a questionable government official as a middleman to set up the exchange, but at the exchange point, Tahir has a different idea of doing the deal -- "in good faith".
Since only a shoe's maker is allowed to sell it, and then only within his own province, the middlemen do a good business by setting up fake workshops in other provinces and passing off the shoes as their own.
There is a case for cutting out the middleman (banks), and setting up a vehicle which lends directly to small and medium-sized businesses.
The middlemen's fees for setting up the annuity and telling you how clever you are can run to 10% of the money involved, plus annual maintenance fees.
There is a case for examining the role of large middlemen and supermarket chains in setting dairy prices: the retail milk price has barely budged in recent months, while farm gate prices are down sharply.
Stada, based in Bad Vilbel, is selling generic drugs, and has bought or allied with several firms in Italy and Spain, where the market for generics is expected to grow quickly.And a third group are setting themselves up as middlemen.
