From Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with multiple vendors, to compliance and security, a broker handles many cloud related issues for a customer.

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Americans also ask how the Security Council could broker peace agreements if the court were going after prominent politicians or officials from any countries involved in the conflict.

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But the real power broker in the national security transition may be Jones, a retired Marine Corps four-star general.

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But Dave Aitel, chief technology officer of another vulnerabilities broker called Immunity, says that security professionals will never be able to offer hackers as much money for software bugs as the bad guys.

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Today, several IT security companies are moving into that chaotic marketplace to broker a more equitable exchange of software bugs for dollars.

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Tired of the cycle of revenge killings, gang leaders housed side by side with their enemies in a maximum security prison outside the capital of San Salvador decided to broker a deal.

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Furthermore, factors affecting commission rates, such as the size of the order, the market in which the security trades, and whether a capital commitment on the part of the broker is required, all undermine the utility of such a comparison, which focuses exclusively on price.

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As an honest broker, she has helped advance programs and policies to enhance citizen security in El Salvador while weakening transnational crime links that affect our own national security.

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The current rules don't require the brokers to fix the trades by buying shares to cover their short positions after 13 days, they merely say that if the trades aren't fixed, the broker can't do any more short-sales in that security without borrowing or arranging to borrow the stock.

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