Word: broker
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...Setting the Record Straight The Right Price In the BUSINESS story about the criminal trial of Martha Stewart [Feb. 16], we incorrectly stated that on Dec. 27, 2001, when Stewart asked her broker's assistant the share price of ImClone, it was $61.53. In fact, when she asked about ImClone's price?and immediately afterward sold her 3,928 shares?the price...
Thomson was so affected by what he saw on Cape York that the following year, when the killing of five Japanese fishermen and three whites at Caledon Bay in Arnhem Land prompted plans for a punitive police expedition, he lobbied the Federal Government to send him as peace broker. Despite officials' fears that he'd be killed - and a request, which he refused, to collect skulls while there - Thomson set off in 1935 to calm tensions and, he hoped, document for policymakers the needs and culture of a people about whom almost nothing was known: "I was to show them...
...determined to cede political control by June 30 and the Iraqis are not prepared to allow an unelected body to assume full political control, a bridge is required - and given the willingness of the Shiite leadership to accept the UN as an honest broker, there may be growing pressure to use the Security Council as the vehicle to mandate a transition process that also creates a legal framework mandating the coalition to continue in its role as guarantor of security...
Those closest to the gears of the global economy were the first to notice the coming storm in China. Albert Stahl, a London ship broker, watched the spot-market price for cargo-vessel leases rise last winter to $22,000 a day for a ship big enough to transport iron ore. He assumed the spike was due to the impending Iraq war. But through the summer the price kept increasing; shipowners even stopped giving quotes in expectation that prices would jump again the following day. Then Stahl began hearing reports of vessels the size of three football fields anchored...
...TIME.com: A U.S. diplomatic mission to broker a cease-fire appears to have failed, after its compromise proposal - for President Aristide to share power with an opposition prime minister pending new elections - was accepted by Aristide but rejected by the opposition. Who are these opposition groups, and why have they rejected the power-sharing plan...