Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After discovering that the "Klaus" who regularly chatted with Frau Hornischer was one of Interatom's leading nuclear experts, Verfassungsschutz agents learned to their alarm that Traube had vacationed for ten days in Yugoslavia in 1975 with Hans-Joachim Klein, another young radical who four months later took part in the kidnaping raid on OPEC ministers in Vienna (TIME, Jan. 5, 1976). Verfassungsschutz advised Interatom of Traube's dubious friendships; they decided against dismissing him immediately on the theory that he might go underground and threaten nuclear revenge. Nine days after the OPEC raid, an agent interrupted Traube...
...mail and turned some quiet music on the tape recorder. After 15 minutes he was relaxed and happy and began to talk. I was just treating him like I would want to be treated." Agrees Lois Jenkins, 26, a secretary at U.S. Steel and wife of an FBI agent: "My view of sex is the same, but now I say 'Thank you' when he opens a door, rather than just take him for granted. In fact, I try to be as nice to him as I would be to a stranger...
...Vascellaro, 24, a nurse who was attending a Total Woman seminar in Oklahoma City last month: "I work part time, and I'd like to advance my career, but I put my family first." Others in the class had similar views. Sharon Burton, 30, wife of an insurance agent: "You don't go to college and get a degree in how to make a marriage work, and people put you down when you tell them that's your goal." And Sharon Stiverman, 38: "People constantly say, 'You have a college degree. You're wasting your...
Frye's intellectual progenitors are a varied lot. He readily admits his debt to Blake, who sparked his interest in mythology and myth-making. With Blake and the other Romantics, Frye shares a powerful faith in the human imagination as a potential agent of individual and social transformation. For Frye, mythologies, as imaginative universes, are not primitive stabs at science, but "rather an attempt to articulate what is of greatest human concern to the society that produces it." In his exaltation of the imagination, he goes so far as to view poetic myth as embodying a higher order of reality...
Count how many times the words "salary," "negotiation," "re-negotiation," "arbitration," "hike," "cut," "hefty" (with either "hike" or "cut"), "free agent," and "trade" appear in the sports pages this month...