Word: brokering
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...agreement reached with the Palestinian leadership, and for which Israel ceded equivalent land from within its 1967 borders. Instead, Bush signed off simply on an expansion of Israeli territory with no quid-pro-quo, making it increasingly difficult to envisage the U.S. resuming the role of an even-handed broker...
...Hiroshi Tsutsumi, director of tenant planning for the firm that owns 109. Don't let the Orwellian title fool you. It's up to Tsutsumi to decide which designers and companies get to set up shop at 109. That makes the unassuming Tsutsumi, 50, the queenmaker and ultimate power broker of Japan's teen-fashion universe. He helped oversee an overhaul a few years ago that transformed 109 from a conventional clothing mall into the highly concentrated--and profitable--teen wonderland it is today...
...peer-to-peer networking. Whereas the original Napster offered free music only and was easy to shut down, its successors--Kazaa, Grokster, Morpheus et al.--trade movies too and have proved more resilient. The music labels fought all instances of unfettered file sharing until Apple CEO Steve Jobs helped broker a cease-fire in the form of the iTunes Music Store, which won praise from consumers and a route to profits for the labels. The film industry, however, is still in the trenches, trying to stall what it sees as an onslaught of movie theft. Already as many as half...
...Leno and president of NBC Universal Television Group Jeffrey Zucker ’86, who controls NBC’s television programming, personally helped broker O’Brien’s deal. During his show, Leno lauded O’Brien as “the hottest late guy out there...
...Records, and then backed it up as "the will of God." What KRS was presumably trying to do was inspire a battle in which he and Nelly would go back and forth on record, gaining publicity while insulting each other, before ultimately calling on someone else seeking publicity to broker a peace. Nelly, though, doesn't battle. "In Midwest hip-hop, we just don't do it," he says. "It's not our forte like the East Coast. We aren't trying to mess with anybody. It makes no sense, and it makes no dollars, either. With...