Word: dealer
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...Hiss case made Nixon a national figure and launched him into a run for the Senate in 1950 against Helen Gahagan Douglas, a former actress who had served six years in the House as an ardent New Dealer. Since red hunting was a national mania in these Korean War days, Douglas foolishly tried to accuse Nixon of being soft on communism, and invented the name that haunted him for the rest of his life: Tricky Dick. But when it came to mudslinging, she was up against a champion. He called her the "pink lady" and declared that she was "pink...
...story is simple; there is no time for plot build-up. Daryl Downs (Pamela D. Meekins) is an exotic art dealer who happens to be black and who wants to buy a painting from Steel (Patrick Sylvain). Steel is an artist from Trinidad who repeatedly refers to his work as "his soul," implying a symbolic tie to his African heritage. When Steel refuses to "sell his soul away" for money, intra-racial conflict ensues between those espousing more practical and more philosophical responsess to prejudice...
Investors could purchase these contracts directly from such dealers as Merrill Lynch or J.P. Morgan, or the dealers could arrange for swaps between investors; either way, the dealer got a fee. Such transactions could take place anywhere. A Texas manufacturer with a $1 million fixed-rate loan who suspected that interest rates would soon fall could swap the loan with a Michigan company that had taken out a floating-rate note but was worried that rates were headed higher. The Texas firm would be the loser if rates did rise, since after the swap it would hold the floating-rate...
Dowds said a felon serving in public office wasakin to a "drug dealer being a police officer...
...slaughter. A sting operation organized by TRAFFIC, an organization that monitors the wildlife trade for the World Wildlife Fund, uncovered a vast poaching network. In one bust last August, New Delhi police found 850 lbs. of tiger bone (equivalent to 42 tigers) and eight pelts. Sansar Chand, a dealer who surrendered last December, has nearly two dozen wildlife cases pending against him. Given the ease with which traffickers can manipulate India's glacial judicial system -- where cases can drag on for decades -- arrest is often only an inconvenience...