Tim Lampe of Lakeshore Realty represented both the buyer and the seller.

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To forcibly exclude those seeking peacefully to trade value for value with us is a violation of the rights of both parties to such a trade: the rights of the American seller or employer and the rights of the foreign buyer or employee.

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Roni Marley of Hawaii Life Real Estate Brokers in Kauai represented both the buyer and the seller.

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Goldman has served as adviser to both seller and buyer, is one of the largest investors in Chicago-based Archipelago, owns more than a dozen exchange seats and has close ties to NYSE's chief executive officer, John Thain, who is a former Goldman president.

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In Nevada, for example, where prostitution is lawful, there are in place safety measures to protect both seller and buyer the mandatory use of condoms (instituted in 1988, as the AIDS crisis raged), and compulsory tests for legal prostitutes, once a month for HIV and syphilis, and once a week for gonorrhea and Chlamydia.

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These same junior Goldman bankers who pulled all-nighters doing the grunt work on the Archipelago-NYSE deal were also maneuvering the firm for a boost in the rankings of deal advisers related to the transaction, and gossiping over possible conflicts in advising both buyer and seller.

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