Word: broker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...about to change. Goodman has landed the hottest part on Broadway: from March 19 he will replace Nathan Lane as the crooked impresario Max Bialystock in the wildly successful revival of Mel Brooks' The Producers - where seats are scarce despite a record top price of $100 and broker prices reaching $480. The musical is due to hit London in 2003. So the casting of this Broadway almost-newcomer (he worked there in 1998 in the long-running Art) is big news...
...forgets to install a few safety features along the way. The entrepreneurial spirit in this capital of Guangdong province is celebrated during the Chinese Export Commodities Fair, held every April and October since 1956. Some 100,000 businesspeople from around the world descend upon Guangzhou to check out goods, broker deals and pad bloated expense accounts; not a difficult task in a city built on consumption?gastronomic, alcoholic and conspicuous. My assignment is to experience all three...
First, a disclaimer: TIME.com's Person of the Week is not a beauty competition or an achievement award; it's an acknowledgment of the nominee's influence over the events that have dominated the week's headlines. And as U.S. mediators work feverishly to broker an ever-elusive Middle East truce even as suicide bombers continue to terrorize Israel's towns and cities, Yasser Arafat is that man. Because once again he appears to hold the immediate fate of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his hands...
...Georgian officials claimed this week. However, just as swiftly, it has become evident that U.S. involvement has prompted another bout of shadowboxing between Georgia, Russia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Chechen rebels. So far, the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) remain unable to broker any kind of deal...
...compromise to which many Israelis and Palestinians may not be willing to agree—it does have the potential to end the current stalemate and bring the parties back to the negotiating table. With few alternatives in sight, the Saudi initiative appears to represent a serious attempt to broker peace in the region by a major Arab power, and it should be pursued with all possible effort...