Middlemen

The main problem with being the middlemen is the same problem the buggy whip makers had when automobiles came out. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The best way to get value for your books, without paying middlemen is to trade them directly for others you covet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The idea of middlemen is that they get a cut of your earnings but in exchange do a lot to help you become famous and popular. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I hope the new Administration creates a universal single-payer system that cuts the insurance company middlemen from the mix. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you had some mechanism by which to exclude certain middlemen from caching your content — I†™ m looking at you, Google— you†™ d have leverage to encourage those middlemen to cache your content only on your terms. ❋ Unknown (2005)

After the Meiji restoration wholesalers (what we would know as middlemen) took over and started the idea of craftsmen, and apprentices set up in factories where a range of different products could be made (Still handmade though). ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2008)

Sometimes, the media middlemen are there for a reason …. ❋ Unknown (2005)

There was a class of men, termed middlemen, in Ireland, who took large farms on long leases from gentlemen of landed property, and let the land again in small portions to the poor, as under-tenants, at exorbitant rents. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Yet for women working in the sex industry, whether prostitution or pornography, technology just might be replacing men -- the middlemen, that is. ❋ Unknown (2005)

From a law enforcement or an investigative perspective, the middlemen are the string that you can pull on ultimately to find users, but you need to find the middlemen first. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Midwinter, Busshe, and Elmes were all wool dealers, or 'broggers' -- middlemen, that is to say, between the farmers who grew and the staplers who bought wool, but often the staplers dealt directly with individual farmers, buying the small man's clip as well as the great man's, and warm friendships sprang from the annual visits, looked forward to in Yorkshire dale and Cotswold valley. ❋ Eileen Edna Power (1914)

-- There was a class of men, termed middlemen, in Ireland, who took large farms on long leases from gentlemen of landed property, and let the land again in small portions to the poor, as under-tenants, at exorbitant rents. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

The companies called middlemen by Gohil have been duly licensed by the central government to purchase and sell power. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Once upon a time aggregators were called middlemen, and if they happened to be the wrong race or religion they often faced physical risk from those on either side of their middleman function. ❋ Nadav Manham (2010)

Department stores are hell-bent on rolling out their own labels, because there's more profit to be made by cutting out the big-name middlemen and women -- Ralph, Liz, Donna, Ermenegildo, and the rest. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The touchstone for Russia's drive to squeeze out the middlemen will be the fate of Nord Stream, a project to link Russia directly with Germany, which is bitterly resented by Poland and the Baltic countries. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But some buyers, known as middlemen, say they do not always have enough cash up-front to buy peanuts from the farmers. ❋ Unknown (2009)