A new deal may be brokered in which congregations can be "safeguarded" from having to deal with women bishops.
"Theoretically, there may be brokers out there who could give you a better number than some appraisers," says Sellers. "But most of them don't have the training, and there's no public accountability, no oversight group and no minimum requirements".
By 10 May, a meeting was brokered at Toynbee Hall to end the strike.
A member may be a broker, dealing as an agent of the public, or a jobber, dealing for his own account with other brokers or jobbers.
Like laundromats, gas stations can be tough to sell because of concerns that the soil beneath them may be polluted, brokers say.
Business models that depend on selling high-cost, low-value proprietary products to clients will be threatened, with the result that there may be fewer broker-dealers and investment advisers to choose from.
Those networks may be Hollywood power brokers, Vernon E. Jordan Jr.'s corporate board directorships or Al Qaeda terrorists.
But now that the TV and phone giants are each demanding concessions of the other, it may be possible to broker a deal.
But while there was been speculation in the last week that the motion picture association may be trying to broker a compromise, as of yesterday the ban was still in place.
"Now, there may be only one broker working an entire aisle, so there's no fight there, no competition," said Richard T. Frede, vice president of Schnuck Markets, which has 92 stores in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
