Word: brokering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that in rural or depressed areas -- into an American business that employs 10 or more workers. So, Wu, 22, is injecting $1.1 million, which he got mostly from his family, into a new gas station and car wash in Chula Vista, Calif. David Liang, a San Diego real estate broker who led Wu to the investment, claims there are plenty of other prospective Americans ready to plunk down their money for a fast track to permanent residency, the major step toward citizenship. "This is only my first project," he says. "If it turns out well, I have 11 other people...
During his nearly three years in the Bush White House, Scowcroft has in some ways eclipsed Secretary of State James Baker: while Baker remains an ingenious political quarterback who can execute the big play, jetting off to the Middle East to try to broker a peace conference, Scowcroft sets the overall game plan. Scowcroft, for instance, proposed cutting U.S. conventional forces in Europe, an idea that culminated in the signing of a treaty by 22 nations in November 1990. Bush's December 1989 surprise meeting in Malta with Mikhail Gorbachev was cooked up by the President and Scowcroft...
...newly imposed state of emergency. Crying "Communist coup!," protesters vowed to resist Nabiev's administration . . . Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement calling for a cease-fire and negotiations to end their dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan, but the fighting continued. Among those who helped broker the agreement was Boris Yeltsin. The Russian president, who is suffering from a heart ailment, subsequently announced that he would take a two-week rest...
...wasn't hard to predict such divisions in a world with no single power broker and no single overriding conflict. People would begin worrying about long simmering neighborhood arguments again. People would want their own ideas to prevail within their own borders. They would stop looking with hateful, blaming gazes at the Great Satan or the Evil Empire to explain their nation's woes. People would look closer to home...
Officials in Syria, the main power broker in Lebanon and the first stop for most released hostages, also said yesterday that they have been on constant alert since Wednesday...