Word: brokering
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...growing demand for the goods and services such companies produce. The same argument in reverse holds that corporate malefactors will do some this-worldly penance thanks to expropriations, consumer boycotts and the like. Investors who held on to Kennecott Copper probably wish they had called the marines or their broker some time back...
...crude and boorish. But there are substantive disagreements as well. Sadat's disillusionment grew after his visit to Moscow last February. There he discovered that the Kremlin was not prepared to deliver on all of his hefty requests for more arms. Sadat, moreover, resents playing the role of broker for Russian interests elsewhere in the Arab world. His trips to such vocally anti-Communist states as Libya and the Sudan, where he has recently tried to patch up the tattered Russian image, are known to anger him deeply...
...Congressional Black Caucus had to face a barrage of embarrassing questions last week, questions that essentially laid bare the covert attempts of the Caucus to gain the position of power broker for the black masses. The questions came during the two day conference entitled "What Our National Priorities Should Be..." held at Harvard under the sponsorship of the Caucus, the Institute of Politics, the Boston Globe, The Chicago Sun-Times, and The Philadelphia Bulletin...
...Philadelphia indictments involved houses sold to Spanish-speaking residents. Two FHA inspectors and a real estate broker were charged. Nine other indictments involving FHA-mortgaged homes had been returned there earlier. Investigations of similar abuses or suits charging such frauds have begun in Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Boston, Miami, Seattle and Los Angeles. Similar indictments were handed down earlier this year in Paterson...
PHELAN. Tired of driving to a broker's office in downtown Los Angeles at 6 a.m. to get the earliest readings off the stock market ticker, Hughes in the late '20s wanted a private ticker of his own in his Ambassador Hotel suite. As Phelan tells it, Dietrich ingeniously got around regulations against such a personal installation. He rented a downtown office, had a ticker legally put in there. Then he discovered that a trolley line to the Ambassador had some unused insulators on the poles and that he could get a private line strung on them...