Word: broker
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When the lot was put up for sale, the minimum bid was set at $650,000. Between March 7 and 10, the city tried once more to stop the sale and make a deal with the broker, Valente and the neighborhood. The council spoke with two environmental organizations, the Trust for Public Land and the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs Division of Conversation Services, as it formed a plan of action...
That's also why the monarchy's peripatetic Petroleum Minister, Ali Naimi, was trying last week to broker production cuts among major oil producers to sop up a global glut that has recently pushed prices to a 12-year low, barely higher in real terms than in 1973. After several days of haggling at meetings in Europe and the Persian Gulf, Naimi finally announced a breakthrough: Iran, Algeria, Venezuela, Mexico and the Saudis agreed to press OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) and non-OPEC countries for a 2 million- bbl.-a-day reduction in the flow of crude...
MORTGAGE TWO-TIMERS Your mortgage broker is supposed to be working for you, sifting the best deal from among lenders. But a new government report warns that many brokers, who handle half of all mortgages, have undisclosed agreements with lenders, letting them make money on top of the $1,000 to $3,000 per loan that borrowers typically ante up. Ask about such deals before you pay any fee. Also, that fee shouldn't go up just because rates...
...deal Surroi helped broker in France looks good on the surface for the Kosovars. After a year of fighting, they would be free of Yugoslav repression. The proposed self-rule would include control over government finances, locally maintained police forces, the removal of Serb troops and the presence of 28,000 NATO troops to ensure stability. Kosovars would feel as if they had their own nation, but they would remain a part of Yugoslavia...
...casualties of the computer age during exam time--with those who can no longer think sequentially and long for a word processor to help them organize their thoughts. Never mind love--there's no time for anything. Off to the gym, off to coffee, off to call the broker. You can go virtually anywhere in the world (except, I suppose, inside the Porcellian). You can obtain a virtual identity (I could be dirtydancer666, if I so chose). We can use virtual money and maintain virtual space. We have become more profilic in our exchanges with one another thanks...