Word: broker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hour on TV, begins to feel restless in his late-late (12:35 a.m. est) time slot. But when the job he covets -- host of the Tonight show -- becomes available, it goes to Jay Leno. With his NBC contract expiring next spring, Letterman hires a new agent, Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz, and starts entertaining offers. Everyone from the Fox Network (which wants to team Letterman in a late-night bloc with Chevy Chase) to major syndicators like Viacom (which offers Letterman additional exposure on its cable networks MTV and VH-1) weighs in with lucrative bids...
...other defendants include several employees and business partners of Walsh including Dennis M. Cargill, a real estate broker, and Ann M. Jarosiewicz, a former paralegal for Walsh and a former alternate on the city's Board of Zoning Appeals...
...those previous tours, when you brokered a deal, it was followed through. And if somebody along the line didn't follow through, they were put in their place. It's relatively easy to broker a deal in Bosnia. It's the execution that is impossible...
...provide cover for deals between nominal enemies, especially in the arms trade. The demand for these services was particularly keen in the Middle East, especially when Israel and Arab states were involved. When American arms destined for Iran and Iraq passed through Israel, for example, B.C.C.I. was frequently the broker and financier. One such transfer involved Iraq's acquisition of Silkworm missiles from China in the mid-1980s. Fahd, worried that Iran was winning its war with Iraq, sought missiles for Saddam Hussein's regime, but was rebuffed by the U.S. and France. B.C.C.I. stepped in and brokered a deal...
There was, for example, the highly sensitive question of B.C.C.I.'s direct involvement in the secret arms-for-hostages deals in Iran during the 1980s, in which it acted as a broker and financier of weapons sales. Ollie North maintained three accounts at the B.C.C.I. Paris branch, and B.C.C.I. was used to transfer money to the contras...