Word: brokering
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...principal figure in the case, which was first reported by the Washington Post, is Tongsun Park, a wealthy Korean rice broker renowned in Washington as a lavish entertainer and Seoul brother of lofty U.S. politicians. In December 1973 Park was co-host of a party for Democratic House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill at the George Town Club. Among the guests: Gerald Ford, who was then Vice President...
...real estate insurance broker by trade, Toomey was indicted in the mid-sixties for trying to influence the award of the insurance contract on the construction of the Callahan Tunnel in Boston...
...York area. In the end, whatever business the bank generates will go to regular brokerage houses anyway. By law, banks cannot buy or sell stocks for their own accounts; all they can do is act on behalf of customers. The bank will channel orders to a Wall Street broker-presumably a deep discounter willing to work for Chemical's rock-bottom prices, with the bank sharing some of the bookkeeping costs...
...long-brewing Lockheed scandal that has lapped at the highest levels in Italy and The Netherlands, as well as in Japan. "Operation Summit," as the Japanese dubbed the Tanaka arrest, was hailed with a chorus of banzais. On the floor of the Osaka Stock Exchange, recounted one Japanese broker, after a moment of stunned silence, "everybody began howling his head off." In Tokyo, after an early morning dip, stock prices jumped twelve points...
...While Washington waits for a Lebanese solution to arrive, like some Arabic Godot, it cannot use its unique position to broker peace. Jerusalem is in no mood to negotiate now, with the Syrians trying to snap a leash in Lebanon on Israel's old enemies, the Palestinians. Initially, Jerusalem worried that Syria would use its involvement in Lebanon as a pretext to take over the country or to launch a surprise attack against Israel. But last spring, after Syria gave private assurances to the U.S. that its intervention in Lebanon was not aimed at Israel, Jerusalem relaxed and began...