Word: brokering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part, the University should press for an earlier renegotiation of the garbage contract, and be prepared to act as a broker between recycling companies and the 12 financially independent graduate schools who will have to make up their own minds about implementing a recycling system...
Caro began work on his Texas-size biography of L.B.J. 14 years ago. The choice of subject was a natural progression from his first marathon, The Power Broker (1974), a 1,200-page study of New York City master builder Robert Moses. The Power Broker is an obligatory book for understanding modern urban politics. In turning to L.B.J., Caro shifted his focus from how New York City works to what makes the nation run. The answer is not surprising. As Franklin Roosevelt's factotum Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran responded when Caro asked how the young L.B.J. gained power, "Money...
Third, you attack motives, suggesting financial greed, slyness, and deception. As the sole author of Proposition 1-2-3, I resent that inappropriate attack. I am a real-estate broker, but not a landlord. I don't own or manage one rent-controlled apartment; and no broker is needed for a landlord to sell to his own tenant...
...decades in the making, but this year it has come into full flower. Almost 30,000 people work in the World Financial Center, four stunning towers that won new laurels for internationally renowned architect Cesar Pelli and Canada-based developers Olympia & York. In the financial district, where the last broker to leave Wall < Street used to put out the cat each night, more than 6,000 residents have settled into the thicket of 19 new apartment buildings, creating a flourishing neighborhood. Upwards of 40 restaurants and glossy shops have followed. This week ferry service from Hoboken, N.J., begins, after...
...drain on the Treasury could be compounded when the measure reaches the Senate, where it is expected to pass, and Democrats try to extend the tax breaks on individual retirement accounts. It seemed like a classic outbreak of "now-nowism," as Budget Director Richard Darman, who helped broker the deal, labels the nation's hunger for immediate gratification...