Word: broking
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Michael D. Smith faced more than a difficult market when he moved into the basement of his wife’s brokerage firm to start up a computer security business. First a steam pipe in the ceiling broke, flooding the basement with scalding water. Then the sewage backed up into the office. “When you start a company, you find space wherever you can, no matter how disgusting and smelly it is,” Smith says of the business, Liquid Machines Inc., which has grown from two to 60 employees since it debuted six years...
...national interest. Which was to take this nuclear armed nation, which is a key country in this region, towards democracy, so that there would be stability so that we could unite the forces of moderation, so we could confront the forces of extremism. But unilaterally they broke the negotiations by the imposition of emergency. So now we are demanding a return to the constitution, Musharraf to retire as chief of army staff, and that he hold the elections on time as he earlier committed to us. We told him in August during our talks in London, that there were issues...
...errors by the Quakers, was able to claim the first game by a score of 30-25. Penn offset an impressive 21 kills in the first game with 11 errors, good for a .192 hitting percentage. Harvard managed 11 kills with only three errors and hit .222. The Crimson broke open a 17-17 tie with a five-point run on the strength of Durwood’s serve.Captain Suzie Trimble pointed to the first game as an example of some of the team’s finest play so far this season.“Our defense was awesome...
...matchup, plain numbers favored a repeat of 2005. Harvard entered the game undefeated in the league—two plays away from perfect overall—with a talented receiving corps, a senior quarterback who has come into his own, and a running back who finally broke out for a big game the weekend before. The Lions were conceding 267 yards per game on the ground and 418 total. The gameplan seemed simple: put the ball in sophomore tailback Cheng Ho’s hands and let him run wild, while occasionally throwing the ball to keep the Columbia defense...
...that balancing act harder to keep up. "The U.S. has made clear it does not support extra-constitutional measures because those measures take Pakistan away from the path of democracy and civilian rule," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters soon after the news of the state of emergency broke. "Whatever happens we will be urging a quick return to civilian rule" and a "return to constitutional order and the commitment to free and fair elections...