Word: broker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...keep both sides negotiating is as important as ever. We worry that President George W. Bush, whose statements on the peace process during the campaign were anything but detailed, will not be as committed to the negotiations as was President Clinton. If the U.S. acts as an honest broker between the two sides, it might be able to establish a necessary degree of trust between Sharon and the Palestinians...
...Davis became a power broker. Literally. He got on the phone and had some juice shifted to the needy north from South California Edison; then he wheedled 133 megawatts from an out-of-state generator, as if he were borrowing a cup of sugar from a neighbor. The lights didn't go out that day, but from that moment it became clear that Davis' political future would be calibrated in megawatts--or the lack thereof...
True, both parents found the twins' questionable "broker" on the Internet. And they're not the first couples to get ensnared by one of the many enticing online advertisements for adoption facilitators. But before the Web, there were heart-wrenching ads in phone books and newspapers. And there was fraud too. "Abuse in adoption is not new, and it's not caused by the Internet," says Gloria Hochman of the National Adoption Center, based in Philadelphia. "It's caused by the fact that there are many more people who want healthy babies than there are babies." The Internet has made...
...were looking in Boston, all over the area," Hopkins remembers. "Then, out of the blue, our restaurant broker told us about this space. We looked around and really got a sense of what we could do with the place...
...source of stability. Wealthy old men would read the listings in the morning paper and learn that their shares had swung up 1/4 or down 1/8. Today we have the Internet and the "CNBC effect." People see a trend as it's happening and call or click their broker to chase the momentum. High volatility on the upside is fun; it's nice to see that a stock you bought on Tuesday is worth 30% more on Thursday. But on the downside, it can turn a minor downtick into a major bloodbath. And that's one reason...