1.   A firm of commodity brokers sought advice from a computer consultant on the installation of a computer system.

2.   It includes banks, stock exchange firms, commodity brokers and discount houses, together with experienced individual traders, locals, who trade on their own account.

3.   Before she became a dealer, Mrs. Poindexter collected the works of both abstract and figurative painters with her husband, George, a commodities broker.

4.   A family friend, the commodities broker.

5.   A dark horse in the trio of competitors is Steve Fossett, a commodities broker from Beaver Creek, Colo.

6.   A prime example is Jones, the Memphis-born commodities broker.

7.   Commodities broker John Henry made a bad deal when he bought the Marlins from Wayne Huizinga two years ago.

8.   Flying with Branson is a former rival, Steve Fossett, an American commodities broker who flew solo in four previous attempts to circle the world.

9.   Fossett, a wealthy commodities broker and a champion long-distance balloonist, is American.