Word: brokering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like to show off what they have. But among the pinstripe set, posing for Playboy is going too far. Seven of the nine stock-market workers featured in the August cover story, "Women of Wall Street," have left their jobs since their photo sessions last year. Lisandra Trujillo, a broker for South Richmond Securities, returned to school. But Robin Mormelo, an administrative assistant for the Stuart-James brokerage house, says she was denied raises and felt compelled to quit. Says Mormelo: "Maybe I'm naive, but what difference does it make what I do when...
...Hang a lamb chop in the window," was the advice legendary hostess Perle Mesta gave those who wanted to make a place for themselves in the capital. Craig Spence, a would-be power broker with a taste for Edwardian suits, took that advice to heart when he arrived in Washington in the late 1970s and hurled himself into high-intensity party-giving at his elegant town house in the fashionable Kalorama section of town...
...member of the Communist Party Central Committee and an elected delegate to the National Assembly. The move against Ochoa may have been personal as well as symbolic. His popularity may have threatened Defense Minister Raul Castro, who is expected to succeed his brother as the country's chief power broker...
...mayor: "If I ran tomorrow morning, I could beat anybody in this town." As for the allegations of dishonesty, "If all this corruption was going on, I should be in jail." Some of his staunchest supporters now see the emperor without his clothes. For 15 years, Washington power broker Max Berry, a wealthy international trade lawyer, raised money and campaigned for Barry. Berry used to defend him. Today he gripes, "It's just a matter of time before the next thing hits. It's hard not to like him, but he's a rascal, and he ought to be thrown...
...liners not only reflect but can even help define the national mood. "When you see Jay Leno consistently making fun of a politician and getting laughs, you know the politician's probably finished," says Torie Clarke, press secretary to Republican Senator John McCain and a well-known Washington joke broker. The onslaught of one-liners about John Tower's reported drinking and womanizing helped scuttle his nomination for Secretary of Defense. Relentless gags about the Exxon oil spill undoubtedly aggravated the company's public relations disaster and spurred pressure for White House action. Deposed Speaker Jim Wright was tougher...