Word: brokering
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Cantor's fellow executors, Lawyer Morris Shilensky and Broker Charles Wohlstetter, told Cantor that he had no business accompanying the next of kin to the cemetery. Then, troubled because no price had been agreed upon with Sculptor Noguchi for his design, the executors demanded written notice from the sisters that they would indemnify the executors should the courts rule that the sum spent for burial was more than "a reasonable amount...
Commodities trading is more intricate than stock trading and a lot more hazardous for the unwary. Ranged on the steps of seven pits on Chicago's trading floor, the brokers transact orders for Kansas wheat, Illinois soybeans, or other crops that have not yet been harvested and in some cases not even planted. Sales of such futures are made with hand signals-palm up and in when a broker is buying, or up and out when he is selling. Fingers are held horizontally and manipulated to indicate prices offered or asked. Each contract represents 5,000 bushels...
Each faction has had its own interests to defend. Rockefeller, facing a rough third-term campaign, cast himself disingenuously in the role of "honest broker," infuriating Lindsay by his lack of direct support. Lindsay's reformist zeal, in turn, only alienated upstate legislators, who instinctively recoiled from the prospect of taxing commuters in order, as they saw it, to finance the city's sacrosanct, heavily subsidized 150 transit fare. The wrangling forced two extensions in the city's deadline for enacting its 1966-67 budget; the second expired last week...
...Call You. Though traditions in some countries forbid brokers to advertise or openly solicit customers, the U.S. firms have built a big clientele and aggressively hold onto it. A German broker seldom phones his customers-and charges them 20 pfennigs for each call when he does-but the U.S. brokers are always on the phone with suggestions and send out as many as eight research reports a month. Many governments restrict trading in U.S. stocks; Britain imposes a 4¼% tax on it, and countries as diverse as Chile and Denmark flatly prohibit it. Imaginative investors, however, usually can slide...
...line. The detachment is here more appropriate since it is Ivanov's detachment from the other characters, not merely the audience's detachment from the play. Gielgud orchestrates for a marvelous band of Chekhovian eccentrics-Dillon Evans as a monomaniacal bridge player, Ethel Griffies as a sour-faced marriage broker, Ronald Radd in a somewhat deeper role as the manager of Ivanov's estate, a man whose visions of wealth are only equalled by his incompetence...