The record companies close as they should, because they are nothing more than costly intermediaries that add nothing to the process.
And both countries should do a lot more to eliminate the shady intermediaries that have made the business of gas supply so opaque and rife with corruption.As so often, the two sides' positions have become dangerously entrenched.
Ten years later, the community continues to iterate on distributed ledger technology in an attempt to increase the scale and speed that will enable business and government to operate more efficiently, without the need for intermediaries that currently serve as the trusted source of truth for transactions, financial and otherwise.
Alternatively, they may be associated with natural hosts or circulate through intermediaries that make contact with humans more likely.
The tools and intermediaries that facilitate syndication relationships will become more sophisticated over time.
The central bank has demanded that so-called central counterparties — financial intermediaries that guarantee transactions between traders — that hold more than a 5 percent market share in euro-dominated financial products be located in the euro zone.
A more serious shortcoming is that companies cannot use special-purpose-vehicles or other trusted intermediaries that facilitate transactions and incentivize fruitful engagement with investment professionals.
But another way to look at it is that the more intermediaries there are, the more they parties take their cuts along the way before the money is spent on an actual ad.
And on Thursday, Mr. Kony, who has been indicted on charges of crimes against humanity, indicated through intermediaries that he needed more time — he did not specify how much — to consult elders and contemplate the charges that he faced.
That wasn't quite Bouteflika's position little more than a week ago, when, in the face of sustained protests, he said through intermediaries that he would step down only after being reelected once more.
