Word: brokering
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...Right now, the only peace initiative in the region appears to be the efforts by Egypt and Jordan to broker a cease-fire and restart talks. What are its chances of success...
...Breaux's moderates didn't really broker a compromise. Lott simply stopped the voting on the tax cut when the number reached $1.273 trillion, fearing it would be whittled away even more if Senate Democratic continued offering amendments. The House has approved all of Bush's $1.6 trillion cut. When the two chambers go into conference to hammer out a final compromise, Lott intends to move the final number closer to $1.6 trillion and leave Breaux's compromise in the dust...
...names of their friends. Even more impressive, more than 98 million Americans - about half of all adults - volunteered their time to charitable organizations in 1989, a 23% increase from two years earlier. Voluntary efforts range from the spectacular to the simply heartwarming. In Los Angeles real estate broker Eric Broida regularly volunteers at the Union Rescue Mission, where he serves meals to the homeless. ''A couple of years ago, I went down one night to help out, and it just felt right,'' he says. ''I felt good. I've been going back ever since...
...with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian negotiator Hanan Ashrawi. The committee, created last October, is seeking ways of reducing Israeli-Palestinian violence, which has now cost more than 400 lives. But Bush said the U.S would not "force peace," and the cia would no longer act as a broker in the region...
...should tell her that there is the news of the honest broker. And the news of the fair-minded. And of the modest, the quiet, the traditional, the faithful, the harmless, the on time, the responsible, the unglamorous, the unambitious, the unchatty, the constant and the tender...