Word: brokering
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Consider William Cameron Forbes. He drifted after graduation, travelled for a while, then volunteered for two years in a broker's office. After that, he coached the Harvard football team to an undefeated season in 1898. That was his big break...
...pages; $24.95). Even the liberal whites in its pages admit to deepening fears and animosity toward the growing urban black underclass. Most of the blacks who talked into Terkel's tape recorder do not think they will ever be five-fifths American. Joseph Lattimore, 50, a Chicago insurance broker, describes himself as typical. "Being black in America is like being forced to wear ill-fitting shoes," he says. "Some people can bear the uncomfort more than others. Some people can block it from their mind, some can't. When you see some acting docile and some acting militant, they have...
...parents who never married and who took turns raising their son in separate households. He moved in with his father just before his 12th birthday. Both parents eventually put themselves through college. Ward, now 42, is a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company; Singleton, 41, is a real estate broker...
...Javier Perez de Cuellar, the former U.N. Secretary-General, who laid the ground for the intervention last fall; his successor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who engineered the Security Council's decision two weeks ago to dispatch the troops; Lord Carrington, the chief envoy in the European Community's effort to broker an overall political settlement among the pieces of the shattered Yugoslav federation; and Cyrus Vance, who has labored for five months as the personal envoy of the Secretary- General to negotiate a cessation of hostilities durable enough to put the peacekeepers in place...
WITH THE CONFERENCE already stacked in the Arabs' favor, Israel needs Bush to be an honest broker. It is Israel that is being asked to make substantive territorial concessions. The Arab nations are only expected to recognize Israel's right to exist...