Word: broker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospect that their support might be taken for granted. That was a basic theme of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's crusade in the Democratic primaries; by attracting three out of four black votes cast, he became, for better or worse, the black community's presumptive political broker. For Mondale, coming to terms with Jackson and other black leaders was a difficult but crucial preliminary to kicking off his formal campaign. The nominee did so after 50 black leaders spent almost eight hours last week debating the issue in a ballroom of the Twin Cities' St. Paul Hotel...
...controversy erupted when Columnist Jack Anderson publicized Tsakos' financial relationship with Hatfield's wife Antoinette, a prominent real estate broker. The Senator initially said that the payments to his wife, which were listed in his financial-disclosure report,* were for locating and supervising the renovation of an apartment in the Watergate complex that Tsakos bought for $520,000. When the seller of the apartment said he had never met Mrs. Hatfield and had sold the apartment to Tsakos directly, the Senator elaborated. Mrs. Hatfield, he said, had been paid $15,000 for showing Tsakos several apartments, including some...
...week ever, twice breaking records for trading volume as the Dow Jones industrial average surged ahead for an 87.46-point gain, the biggest weekly advance in history. "Nineteen years on the floor of the exchange, and I've never seen anything like it," exclaimed Daniel Pratt, a floor broker for Smith Barney...
...programs in the hope of racking up enough mileage to earn free tickets to exotic locations. Yet roughly half of such customers fail to use the awards they receive. As a result, these coupons have become a hot new commodity, bought and sold by at least a dozen upstart brokers. The secondhand awards often present a sizable saving for the purchaser, even after the broker has taken a 20% to 40% commission. For instance, one broker was recently offering roundtrip, first-class tickets from New York City to Los Angeles, normally...
...League announced yesterday that it had signed a one-year contract with a New York-based television broker and a Boston production company to televise nine league football games on Saturdays beginning Sept...