Word: aaron
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...part of a diabolical scheme to influence American public opinion? And what if this media mole were to get his claws on the most ^ powerful U.S. communications company? That is the provocative premise of Agent of Influence (Putnam; 416 pages), an intriguing merger mystery by David Aaron, author of the best-selling 1987 spy thriller State Scarlet...
...Aaron's tale reflects a real-life strategic shift in which military competition is giving way to financial struggle. "The new focus of Soviet intelligence operations under Mikhail Gorbachev," warns one of his characters, "is in the field of economics." Aaron has populated his tale with a new breed of intelligentsia whose members whisper in the same breath about both espionage and arbitrage...
...Aaron's tale bristles with arcana picked up during the author's career in Washington, where he served as deputy to Zbigniew Brzezinski on President Carter's National Security Council, and on Wall Street, where he is a board member of the Oppenheimer investment firm. At times, Aaron can get carried away with brand names, as when he notes that a character was able to fall asleep on a plane "despite a monster roar from the four Rolls-Royce SNECMA Olympus 593 jet engines." But he manages to keep his plot shifting as fast as the ticks in the price...
...December state-of-the-game message, Ueberroth proclaimed that minority employment in baseball has risen from 2% to 10% in two years and that minorities have filled 102 of the latest 282 front-office openings in areas like promotions and ticket sales. However, home-run king Henry Aaron, now player-development director for the Atlanta Braves, noticed that there are still no black general managers. "It sounds like the same old bull," he said...
...kind of the frontline for tutoring once the students come to the country," says Project Literacy Co-Chair and tutor Aaron Richmond '91. "There's just a huge group clamoring to get in, learn what they need and then move on. The practical reality is that they at least need the minimum training; it's sad that we can't keep them longer...