Word: brokering
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...Bush did, Clinton will spend much of his time debating the pros and cons of issues with his deputies. "I don't see the job as a gatekeeper or as an enforcer. I really do see it as a supporting role," says McLarty. He intends to be an honest broker who will carry out orders, keep a low profile and make sure that those who disagree do so, as he puts it, "in an agreeable...
...hour on TV, begins to feel restless in his late-late (12:35 a.m. est) time slot. But when the job he covets -- host of the Tonight show -- becomes available, it goes to Jay Leno. With his NBC contract expiring next spring, Letterman hires a new agent, Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz, and starts entertaining offers. Everyone from the Fox Network (which wants to team Letterman in a late-night bloc with Chevy Chase) to major syndicators like Viacom (which offers Letterman additional exposure on its cable networks MTV and VH-1) weighs in with lucrative bids...
...other defendants include several employees and business partners of Walsh including Dennis M. Cargill, a real estate broker, and Ann M. Jarosiewicz, a former paralegal for Walsh and a former alternate on the city's Board of Zoning Appeals...
...those previous tours, when you brokered a deal, it was followed through. And if somebody along the line didn't follow through, they were put in their place. It's relatively easy to broker a deal in Bosnia. It's the execution that is impossible...
There was, for example, the highly sensitive question of B.C.C.I.'s direct involvement in the secret arms-for-hostages deals in Iran during the 1980s, in which it acted as a broker and financier of weapons sales. Ollie North maintained three accounts at the B.C.C.I. Paris branch, and B.C.C.I. was used to transfer money to the contras...