Some brokers are beginning to wonder if all the time and effort to keep companies would be better spent elsewhere.

So brokers began persuading their clients, the sellers, to try sealed bids.

Some brokers have begun focusing on biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies when they are marketing available space.

The brokers began getting contracts for the stock and then were told that the Union Securities Company was all sold out.

Along with all this welcome prosperity some brokers and investors are beginning to worry: Is it starting to get too hot?

In the late 1970's, brokers there began working together under various arrangements to capture a larger share of the fiercely competitive order-filling business.

Married almost a year, the 26-year-old assistant broker for Cantor Fitzgerald had already begun, with her husband, to pick out baby names.

In addition, banks, insurers and brokers will all begin to expand their ranges of businesses.

The residential brokers began trying to help the homeless last year, when they sponsored their first gala.

But decades ago, the brokers also began collecting fees from the other side of the deal, the insurers.