Word: brokering
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...Bernard Ebbers, who made $11 million in trading profits over four years on IPO shares he bought through Salomon, according to documents obtained by Congress. Spitzer would like to prohibit IPO allocations to executives that can't be justified by the amount of business those executives provide their broker through personal accounts. "You cannot give shares in an effort to persuade the CEO of a big company to bring business to your investment bank," Spitzer told Time. "That's commercial bribery." Spitzer also hopes to fully separate stock analysts from investment bankers. Amid all the probing, Citi's stellar financial...
...Rifai will doubtless toast what he hopes will be a Lawrence-inspired tourism renaissance. "The Lawrence myth has been rather underplayed in Jordan until now," he says. "We need more examples of people like him to broker stronger relations and mutual trust between East and West." But the harsh reality for the foot soldiers of Jordan's stalled tourist industry is that it will take more than the eulogized legacy of an eccentric British officer to bring visitors back. Especially if a U.S.-led military assault on Iraq goes ahead and opens what King Abdullah II has described...
According to a book published by the center, a spreadsheet used by Ralph D. Smith, the Los Angeles broker who handled the sale for Bush, included the phone number of HMC, as well as the name of Michael R. Eisenson, a top investment manager for the University at the time...
Losing a parent is hellish in any instance. Hilary had the added horror of seeing hers vanish, suddenly and surreally, on TV. That morning her father George called home twice from his office at the insurance broker Aon on the 99th floor of the south tower--once calmly, the second time choking on tears--to assure her mother Ginny that he was O.K. and was being evacuated. Several hours later, Hilary, watching TV along with the rest of her sixth-grade class, saw one of the endless replays of her father's office building collapsing in a heap...
...approach to foreign policy in April when he was asked whether he understood that Palestinians consider the Israeli occupation to be a form of terrorism. The context for his statement was a brief period in which Bush suspended his pro-Israel tilt and tried to act as an honest broker between both sides in the conflict, calling on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to halt Israel's incursion into the West Bank. That's when he said, "Look, my job isn't to try to nuance. I think moral clarity is important, if you believe in freedom. And people...