Word: broker
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...members include thousands of young workers from firms such as Microsoft and Intel. On its website, members can do basic banking, apply for a mortgage or learn about insurance. "I probably visit the site every day," says member Erin Mulkins, 25, a manager at a mortgage broker who does all her banking at First Tech. "When I have a question about my account, I call, and I'm told immediately what's going on." Mulkins also earns 1.5 percentage points more on a three-year certificate of deposit than she would at a bank...
...they did in 2001. Toxic foreign influences typically enter the country via its porous border with China, across which Chinese and North Korean traders smuggle videotapes and music cassettes. While food remains in desperately short supply, surplus porn has sent prices tumbling. In 1995, according to a Chinese broker who works the border, a skin flick sold for $100. "Now you don't earn money selling porn because it's so common. When you sell South Korean dramas, you give out a few porn videos for free...
Real estate broker Pat Miller, 47, lives in California wine country and is on her fourth RV in five years. "I tell my husband, 'This is the last one,' and then we see something nicer," she says. The Millers aren't crazy about their $190 fuel fill-ups--after the first, the credit-card company called to see whether their card had been stolen--but they like their RV's cruising range of 700 miles...
...downtown Salt Lake in November 2001. He introduced himself as Emmanuel and asked her for money. She gave him $5 and offered him a day's work repairing the roof of her house and raking leaves. This didn't seem unusual to her husband Ed, a real estate broker who often helped people with temporary work. He labored in tandem with "Emmanuel" on a roof project and described the man as genial and soft-spoken. After four hours the Smarts told "Emmanuel" he was welcome to come back and help out on future home improvements. The Smarts didn't hear...
...greatest challenge for the U.S. is if it can broker peace between India and Pakistan,” he said...