Word: broker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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William Kristol, former aide to Dan Quayle and aspiring Republican power broker, outlines a G.O.P. strategy on health care in a widely read memo: "Republicans should scrupulously avoid endorsing the President's depiction of a nation beset by fear over health care...
...alive and well. Instead of money or parcels of land, the new dowry consists of at least one advanced degree and the promise of unimpeded progress up the social ladder. Lemann skewered this practice when he observed that a college admissions dean "acts as a de facto marriage broker...
Hosokawa has also adopted a low-key populist style, shedding some of the perks and symbols that separate legislators from their constituents. Earlier this month, he scolded his staff for holding a meeting at a ryotei -- an expensive, traditional Japanese restaurant often used by Diet members to broker deals. From now on, he told them, use less pricey hotels. He avoids wearing his legislator's lapel pin, though this has incurred the ire of the country's 10,000 pinmakers. "I never liked that sense of boasting, 'I'm a Diet man,' " says Tokyo housewife Seiko Arai. "The times were...
...record will show me not as an old boy, not as a power hungry, politics-driven individual, not as a backroom broker, but as a dedicated, well-intentioned, accessible individual," said Gabay. "I've been above the politics of the council...
...There was some speculation that if there was enough serious damage to structures, you would have additional demand for wood supplies." -- LUMBER BROKER EXPLAINING WHY HOPEFUL TRADERS RAN UP THE PRICE OF LUMBER FUTURES AS HURRICANE EMILY APPROACHED