Word: brokering
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...City fable: delinquent teen commandeers an eight-car subway train, taking 2,000 passengers on a three-hour joyride on the A line, the longest in the system. But as it turned out, the tale of Keron ("Keno") Thomas, 16, was not of the Honey-let's-call-that-broker-in- Westchester-this-city-really-is-going-to-hell variety. It was that other type of urban story, the kind that continues to propel big-city dwellers forward each day, a tale of hard work and self- starting (albeit misguided) initiative, of taking matters into one's own hands...
Assuming the allies finally follow (which seems likely, since their appetite for recalcitrance appears to have run its course), these minimeasures could begin almost immediately. "It's the ultimate cop-out to let them fight it out," says Lord Owen, who has been trying to broker a negotiated settlement for almost two years. Owen aside, there is no assurance that the genocide will moderate. Does anyone seriously think the Serbs will picnic as their opponents arm, or that they'll suddenly respect the lightly defended enclaves where innocents have gathered to escape the slaughter, the so-called safe havens they...
...knows what he wanted with it. Maybe he thought he could still broker a peace. By that time, however, it would have been too late for him even if he'd had the nerve...
...operations, scaring the bejesus out of Madison Avenue by devising two dozen smart, sexy TV spots for Coca-Cola, and he may be looking to poach other business from the ad agencies. And still he wants more. He has turned himself into the movie industry's highest-profile investment broker in the past few years, arranging the multibillion-dollar acquisitions of Columbia Pictures by Sony and MCA/Universal by Matsushita...
...Typically, we have [one] trade-in day a month which may be used toward purchases from TPC. We're going to try to work with the Cambridge Public Schools to be the broker," Etheridge said...