Word: brokering
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...general secretary, Philip Potter, issued a bland statement in favor of peace and the U.N., but avoided the issue of Israel's survival and did not mention the Arab attack. Jews argue that the liaison between the council and the Palestine Liberation Organization -intended to preserve a broker role in the conflict-impedes peace by encouraging the extremists. Moreover, the council has a growing number of churchmen from the Third World who actually support the Palestinian guerrilla cause. "The council has committed itself to a national liberation ideology," complains Tanenbaum. "It would help if they would see that Israel...
...diplomatic approach to Middle East problems-primarily including a tough realism about Israel and Washington's role as Israel's broker -came through last week in Kissinger's discussions across the Arab world...
...Sweden, the United Nations Emergency Force could include soldiers of ten other nations drawn from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the East bloc. France protested its exclusion, but was voted down. Britain also wanted to join, largely to recapture some of its onetime role as a Middle East power broker. In the end, the British grudgingly went along with Kissinger's proposal...
...real estate broker friend persuades him to convert it into something more appropriate to the neighborhood. He stocks his shelves with volumes of pornographic fantasies and the apparatus to make them real-everything from vibrators to leather harnesses. The place is renamed Sex Shop, with every letter over the door spelled out in light bulbs that burn brightly even at noon. Browsing, except by minors, is encouraged...
...more−mostly banks, pension funds and other institutional investors. These large-scale buyers and sellers can bargain for commissions that omit charges for services like providing research and holding stocks in custody that many investors may not want or need. When smaller investors are given the same privilege, broker commissions are expected to go down...