Word: brokering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that clearly make some traditional dowsers a bit uneasy. Robert Monicol drove in his camper all the way from Mesa, Ariz., not because he is interested in "all this psychic stuff' but because "I want to improve myself in my hobby-treasure hunting." A splendidly coiffed blond commodities broker from New York City allows that dowsing helps her cope with, if not actually predict, a fickle market. Ira Denbar, a young mailorder and advertising man from Providence, is trying to shake off the painful effects of a divorce. "Dowsing helps me keep my head together," he says. "It plugs...
...having a major economic impact. The U.S. League of Savings Associations reports that 45% of all 1977 home buyers were two-earner families and more than two-thirds of them were under 34. When buying houses, the elite pays large sums, but is very particular. Observes David Kosta, a broker at Swanson Associates, realtors in Winchester, Mass.: "Single-income families want the most modern homes, with everything showy. The double-income couple likes older houses with character. They want the original woodwork and even the old-fashioned plumbing fixtures...
...third. Her previous ventures in love have been disasters. Her first important romance was with Peter Goulandris, heir to another Greek shipping fortune, but the couple were so incompatible that they never got as far as the altar. That over, she married, at 20, a Los Angeles real estate broker more than twice her age named Joseph Bolker. Nine months later, they divorced. Four months after her father's death, in 1975, she married Alexander Andreadis, scion of an Athens business family. "It is like being made a king for life," gushed Andreadis, who was dethroned by divorce less than...
...Canal treaties, Carter accomplished something that four previous Administrations had postponed. In the Middle East, the most dramatic moves have been made not by the U.S. but by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. However, Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance have carefully strengthened the U.S. role as an honest broker to whom both Israel and moderate Arab states can turn...
...invention of the cinematograph. An estimated 20% of all property in the chic Beverly Hills-Brentwood-Bel Air area is now foreign owned. Iranians have nicknamed Loma Vista Drive "Aga Sheik Hadi Avenue," after the street where many lived in Tehran. Says Elaine Young, a Beverly Hills real estate broker who has sold palatial properties to foreigners from many countries: "Southern California has become the world's rich melting...