No longer happy to act mainly as middlemen, many have wanted a slice of the action themselves.
They were serving as middlemen in the student loan program -- some of you may have heard about this.
Political parties have traditionally served as middlemen between voters and their government, helping organize, aggregate and sort candidates, policies, and money.
In the U.S., a dozen or so shellers act as middlemen between farmers and end users like peanut-butter and candy makers including J.
Just like other p2p lenders, Rebirth Financial eliminates the additional costs of banks and other financial institutions serving as middlemen in the lending transaction.
"These referees are alleged to have acted as middlemen or facilitated bribes that basically influenced the outcome of matches between certain clubs, " Bokaba said.
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Design teams work directly with clothing manufacturers to create private-label lines, avoiding the mark-up applied by apparel companies which normally serve as middlemen between retailers and manufacturers.
Today, millions of students are paying less for college because we finally took on a system that wasted billions of taxpayer dollars using banks and lenders as middlemen.
The real debate has to do with the very mechanism of the exchange, which has floor specialists acting as middlemen to facilitate trades between willing buyers and willing sellers.
Offshore currency centers, generally set up in places beyond the reach of U.S. or European law enforcement, can serve as middlemen between criminals and the mainstream financial world, brokering transactions that turn illegally obtained money into seemingly legitimate cash.
While applauding the sale of local produce in stores, farmers' market supporters say the main point is for farmers to sell freshly harvested goods directly to shoppers, which they say is more profitable than using stores and distributors as middlemen.
Not only is the legislation pending, but we know how it can be paid for, which is to stop providing subsidies to banks and financial institutions that are serving as middlemen on student loans. (Applause.) Let's have those loans go directly to the students.
I'm not going to stop fighting to give our kids the best education possible -- (applause) -- to take the tens of billions of dollars we pay banks to act as middlemen on student loans and invest that money in students who actually need it.
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So millions of students are already paying less for college because of what we did. (Applause.) We took on a system that was wasting billions of taxpayer dollars using banks and lenders as middlemen for the student loan program, and we said why do we need the middlemen?
As part of a higher education package that we passed last year, what we were able to do was to take away subsidies that were going to banks for serving as middlemen in the student loan program and funnel that to help young people, through Pell Grants and lower rates on student loans.
Japanese game makers argue that platforms can help them keep existing players to stick around longer and attract new users more cheaply than other marketing techniques, such as paying middlemen for downloads.
This will become a rout as new Web middlemen, or "demand aggregators, " let solo Web surfers gang up into virtual buying co-ops. n Turning services into software.
Hooked, which Uppal founded in San Francisco, positions itself as good for the developer community as it cuts out middlemen who often take a cut from app creators in exchange for often-bogus user installs.
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Shekhar Bajaj, the head of Bajaj Electricals, the wing of the conglomerate that sells home appliances, wants to start reaching rural buyers directly and cutting out costly middlemen (such as Mr Gurubaran).
Still, it's fair to ask whether the middlemen need to get paid quite as well as they do.
Instead, antitrust agencies around the globe have fixated on helping middlemen comparison-shopping sites such as Nextag and PriceGrabber, most of whom charge retailers for listings.
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The middlemen are niche investment banks, such as Climate Change Capital and Natsource, and project-management companies, such as Camco and AgCert.
Professional ad agencies and middlemen still serve a purpose, particularly as gatekeepers.
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The rest of Rouge's capacity, about 750, 000 tons at the time, was sold as uncoated raw sheet to the steel industry's middlemen.
The rest of Rouge's capacity, about 750, 000 tons at the time, was sold as uncoated raw sheet to the steel industry's middlemen -- service centers and processors.
The notion that middlemen are making prices go up is at least as widespread as belief in UFOs.
As electronic commerce booms, it's not just the middlemen who will find creative ways to use the Internet to strengthen their relationships and customers.
The intelligence gained can be used to trace the money as close as possible to its source and to shut down a few middlemen along the way.
Customers came flocking as LuLu made its name as a provider of value-for-money goods by eliminating middlemen and setting up its own manufacturing and bulk purchasing.
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