Word: broker
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...possible connection with law enforcement came to light when the data brokers were asked as part of the Congressional inquiry to submit letters revealing their client lists. One data broker listed as clients the FBI and unspecified "foreign governments," while another claimed to have done work for the Department of Homeland Security. Neither company will reveal the extent of the data they gave out. Both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security deny any wrongdoing...
...including U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Ralph Nader, Will Smith, George Lucas, Nobel laureate James Watson, Bill Belichick and Dr. Andrew Weil. We also attracted such political opposites as Bill O'Reilly and Al Franken, which I like to think proves my point that TIME is an honest broker of the news, whether it be in the magazine or on TIME.com...
...step towards encouraging healthy eating in children. While soft drinks make up a small part of most children’s caloric intake, the calories they do contain provide little nutritional value and are less filling than calories consumed through food. As former President Bill Clinton, who helped to broker the agreement, noted, “If an 8-year old took in 45 less calories per day, by the time he reached high school, he would weigh 20 pounds less than he would have weighed otherwise.” Each shift made by the government, school districts, and corporations...
...Those are deals that Morales apparently feels Chavez, his political mentor, can broker for him. Chavez was characteristically boisterous Wednesday night when he flew into La Paz, Bolivia, to meet with Morales before the pair left for Puerto Iguazu. "Bolivia and Venezuela," he announced, "are always working on a big common strategy...
...sales did not have to be reported until year-end - after Enron was bankrupt. Because of that, in October 2001, investors thought Lay owned more than double the amount of stock he actually had. Lay testified that he sold the shares back to the company - rather than through his broker on the open market, in which case they would have been immediately reported - because it was "a lot more efficient." That was "a very unconvincing explanation," in the view of one courtroom observer, Houston attorney Michael Wynne, who is building his own case against banks that funded Enron...