Word: brokering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the people of El Salvador should decide for themselves. I think the guiding principle should be the self-determination of the El Salvadorean people and the non-intervention of the great powers. It doesn't mean that you can not negotiate or try to appear as a friendly broker. But this is a local revolution that was born in El Salvador and will be solved in El Salvador." He pauses, his hands momentarily calmed from their expansive gesticulations...
...been the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). Founded in 1971 by an aggressive young lawyer, Keith Stroup, NORML--fueled by Stroup's vision of himself as the Ralph Nader of dope--became a legitimate lobby to be reckoned with and Stroup became a flamboyant power broker. High in America is journalist-novelist Patrick Anderson's account of NORML, the politics of pot and the rise and fall of Stroup, the man who got high for your sins...
...zealous following, most remain skeptical about his method and latest feat They complain that if a brokerage firm sent out a message similar to that of Granville, it would be charged by the Stock Exchange and the Securities and Exchange Commission with using "extravagant and inflammatory language." Snapped one broker last week: "Granville got $5 million worth of free publicity by shouting 'Fire!' in a crowded theater...
Leisure Corp., a hotel and casino company, to return about $22 million to investors because the firm and its broker had, among other things, made fraudulent claims about the stock's potential...
...smoking and roller disco) and so returned to the Real Thing, temporarily no doubt. It is all transient fashion, the cynic would say, like a return of the '40s look. Jerry Rubin, Yippie leader back in the '60s, turns up now on Wall Street as well-dressed broker. The designer Betsey Johnson, a woman who previously went around with her hair dyed pink or green and a lightning bolt tattooed above her left breast, is now being seen wearing a simple little black dress...