Word: broker
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...securities. A Jacksonville, Fla., woman who received a Dean Witter flyer with her Sears charge-account statement responded with a $1 million check. Far more significant has been the amount of traffic attracted to the outlets, which, with potted plants and walnut desks, resemble suburban bank branches. The average broker has lured three times as many new accounts and booked triple the sales of his pinstriped counterpart in one of the 325 freestanding Dean Witter offices...
...Witter Reynolds office in Boca Raton, Fla., was apparently not convinced. According to Verola, she informed her employers of the modeling offer last July and was abruptly fired. Then, she claims, Dean Witter lured away her clients with unspecified "inferences and innuendoes." She and her husband Victor, 36, a broker at the same firm, say they shared 125 clients and a yearly income in the low six figures. Both were sacked at the same time and, Verola charges, given only 15 minutes to clear...
...efficient functioning of the incoming Congress will depend on the ability of moderate Senate Republicans, like Baker and Robert Dole of Kansas, to broker consensus policies acceptable to both Reagan and the House Democratic leadership. For this to work, Helms and his band of renegade Republicans must be controlled better than they were during the lameduck session. In addition, Reagan, who up to now has had great success in persuading Congress to do his bidding, must show that he also has the flexibility to work with the institution when it asserts more independence. Otherwise, the pendulum will swing from...
Even before it was published, this book, like so much else about Lyndon Johnson, was making people angry. Robert A. Caro, whose awesomely detailed, 1,246-page biography of Builder-Bureaucrat Robert Moses, The Power Broker, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975, has been toiling for seven years on a three-part study of the 36th President. Excerpts from the first volume, which takes Johnson from his hardscrabble beginnings up to his World War II service, began appearing a year ago in the Atlantic Monthly. In one such episode, Caro disclosed that Johnson had for years accepted "envelopes stuffed with...
...opposed the Camp David agreements, said that Washington had "markedly deviated from Camp David in almost each and every clause of its new plan." He told the Knesset that the Reagan initiative was "an attempt to bend and subjugate Israel" and that the U.S. was "no longer an honest broker" because it had chosen to side with the Arabs. Other Israeli officials objected to the linking of Jordan's King Hussein to the future of the occupied territories. As a Begin aide put it, "If this plan were to be accepted, Israelis before going to sleep would have to pray...