Word: brokering
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...organization blew up a Jerusalem bus carrying one of my friends. But sooner or later, America and Israel will have to start dealing with a Palestinian government that includes it for the same reason the U.S. is dealing with an Iraqi government that includes Baathists and is trying to broker an Afghan government that includes the Taliban - because it's our best shot at getting terrorists out of the terrorism business. If there were an easier way, we'd have found...
...point on the refinancing or a bump in interest rates, to encourage them to continue loans as they mature. "Let's provide a way for [the banks] to roll over those loans, not just say that no one wants to refinance them," said Blaine Walker, a commercial real estate broker in Utah...
...negotiations which can drag on for weeks, the sum is agreed - usually more than $2 million for a container ship or oil tanker. Then the cash is air-dropped by private security companies that specialize in delivering ransoms to Somali pirates; insurance brokers say that's only about three companies. "The money is concealed in large floating plastic containers, and flown by air and dropped," says Mike Regester, an insurance broker for the London company Cooper Gay, which covers oil and shipping companies for kidnap and ransom. "Then the pirates go out and pick it up," he says...
...Florida officials are making their own surge, which is only fitting given that appallingly lax state oversight earlier in the decade allowed just about any crook to become a mortgage broker. Five people were busted in Miami on Thursday in a $4.5 million straw buyer scam. Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum this month filed a civil lawsuit against a number of alleged loan-modification scam artists on behalf of scores if not hundreds of people, most of them facing foreclosure, who claim they paid upfront fees as high as $3,000 to have their mortgage terms improved so they could...
...Update Wikipedia. Blackshaw calls Wikipedia a "reputational broker," a gateway through which financial analysts, the media and even current and future customers come in contact with the brand. By late afternoon April 17, the Wikipedia entry for Domino's noted the following about the controversy: "In April 2009, videos depicting two Domino's employees, Kristy Hammonds and Michael Setzer, in Conover, North Carolina, tampering with customer food were uploaded to the YouTube video hosting service. Later, the duo was arrested and charged...