Word: brokering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Krystal sees it: out of his unconscious needs, the investor wishfully attaches "magical feelings of omnipotence and omniscience" to the government, big corporations, and even the stock exchange itself. "The anxieties of the consumer" drive him to periodically reendow his salesman or broker with an aura of authority and safety that was shattered as recently as the last time his stocks took a tumble...
...apart from Europe, a role based on a 'special relationship' with the U.S. and on being the head of a 'commonwealth' which has no political structure, unity, or strength-this role is about played out. Great Britain, attempting to work alone and to be a broker between the United States and Russia, has seemed to conduct policy as weak as its military power...
...children would address the No. i wife as "Mother," their own mother as "Elder Sister." Today an estimated one-third of Hong Kong's men have a tsip, or second wife, recruited from dance halls, but keep her on a part-time basis only. One wealthy sugar broker had nine tsipies scattered all over Hong Kong. Last week Hong Kong's Council on Human Rights, prodded by militant, Western-oriented feminists, demanded that concubinage of both the old and new varieties be abolished as "obsolete...
...York Governor and Mrs. Averell Harriman (he calls her "Ma"), NBC's Robert Sarnoffs, and Mrs. Henry Ford II, all of whom dug Duchin's tinkling into the small hours. But Dad might not have been pleased. "I think he would have preferred that I become a broker or banker." said Peter. "Being an orchestra leader, he told me, was a hard life...
...Minutes of Thought. The rise of Joseph Hirshhorn, from those bleak Brooklyn years to his start as a 17-year-old broker on the New York Curb Exchange and finally to the fortune he has made out of Canadian uranium, has long been a legend in business and financial circles. But even after this legend has faded, he will be remembered as a collector. Every top dealer on both sides of the Atlantic knows the bustling little (5 ft. 4 in.) figure with the torrent of enthusiasm. And scores of U.S. artists who are now prosperous and famous remember...