Word: broker
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...calculus has several steps, Feinberg explains. First, the government will estimate how much a victim would have earned over his or her lifetime had the planes never crashed. That means a broker's family will qualify for a vastly higher award than a window washer's family. To estimate this amount, each family was handed an easy-to-read chart on the way into the meeting: Find your loved one's age and income and follow your finger to the magic number. Note that the lifetime earnings have been boosted by a flat $250,000 for "pain and suffering"--noneconomic...
...girls has not slowed. The economic imperative is such that for most families, sending daughters illegally to Thailand is a must, says Cherry Waing of World Vision's Kentung office. And with no education or training, girls have little earning power outside the flesh trade. "Every village has a broker for sex workers," says Waing...
...Short of subpoenaing [Winokur] and his stock broker, he doesn’t have an obligation to report his sales. There really is no other way to know,” said Francis Karam, a lawyer handling one of the largest lawsuits against Enron insiders...
...Manh's dealmaking prowess is probably his most valuable asset. "He's had to learn the art of being a consensus broker," says Thayer. "This guy is thoroughly working within the system, and perhaps will be more effective as a reformer because of that." Ho Chi Minh himself was renowned for bringing squabbling factions of his revolution together. If Manh can do the same and steer the party toward reform, he may prove to be Ho's political heir, at least...
...Jane and Jim Kaplan, a retired real estate broker and an electronics-company owner, both in their 60s, the importance of friendship hit home when they were considering relocating from Wayne, N.J., to one of several locales with appealing climate and recreational opportunities. "When push came to shove and we really thought about it," Jane recalls, "we felt we should go somewhere where we had close friends." Two years ago, the couple moved to the Governor's Land near Williamsburg, Va., a residential community, to be near Ginger and Herb Knapp, friends since their student days at the College...