Word: broker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After law school I hope to become a power broker," said T.O. Whenhan, a student at Mount Allison University...
...power broker is assuming the role of the Republican Vision Man. Furthermore, with a demoralized Democratic Party facing ominous elections, Newton Leroy Gingrich may soon get a lofty title to match his aspiration -- Speaker of the House in the 104th Congress. (Gingrich is already set to be leader of House Republicans once minority leader Robert Michel retires at the end of the year.) If the G.O.P. has a net gain of at least 23 new seats, Republicans will have more than 200 votes in the House for the first time in 36 years. That would give conservatives effective...
Small wonder that some investors have become confused about the true nature of what they hold. Unable to parse the prose of the typical prospectus, fund clients must often rely on the advice of sales personnel who may know little about derivatives . "My broker didn't have the full story," asserts Andrea Lingenfelter, a Seattle Ph.D. candidate in Chinese history whose $200,000 divorce settlement has dwindled to $140,000 after a little more than a year in the Piper Jaffray fund. Her goal had been to park the money for several years until she got her degree from...
...shows that three funds are now paying more than 5 percent. The top performer is Benham's Prime Money Market Fund, based in Mountain View, California, which was yielding 5.12 percent. In second place, yielding 5.09 percent, is the Olde Premium Plus Money Market Series, available through the discount broker Olde. The Dreyfus Basic Money Market fund is third, with a 5.02 percent yield. The average money-market fund is paying only 4.35 percent, up from 4.29 percent last week, according to the weekly report by IBC/Donoghue...
...Mitra -- TIME Daily offers a summary of top news, often shaped with special insights from TIME correspondents around the world. The daily service has already scored some coups: it was the first media source to report that emissaries from Fidel Castro were meeting with Cuban exiles in Madrid to broker a deal between the U.S. and Havana on Cuban refugees...