Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...postpone a decision to buy the McDonnell-Douglas DC 10 and then arrange for All Nippon to buy the Lockheed Tristar, instead. In order to accomplish this objective, Kotchian undertook to penetrate the very top level of Japanese political decision making. He enlisted the aid of Lockheed's secret agent in Japan, Yoshio Kodama, a leader of the ultra-right wing nationalist faction of Japanese politics, a man with close ties to conservative elements of the Japanese ruling party, an unsavory figure who had served three years in Sugamo prison at the end of World War II as a suspected...
Gajdusek, 53, of the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Md., found the cause of a puzzling fatal degenerative brain disease called kuru, which long plagued the Fore tribe of New Guinea. The agent responsible: a previously unknown kind of cell invader, dubbed a "slow virus"-in this case, transmitted, during cannibalistic rites. Such viruses incubate in the body for years, may be linked to other severe diseases of the nervous system, such as Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), and perhaps play a role in aging...
...female psychology, and the New York Times Magazine has asked her to write an article on female sexuality. So many want to plumb Hite, in fact, that she has decided to turn down a host of suitors, including Penthouse and much of the British press. Says Hite's agent: "Now she wants to be very selective in the things she does...
Three Harvard Medical School specialists who recently investigated Philadelphia's mysterious Legionnaires' disease say they think either toxic compounds or an unknown infectious agent caused the disease...
...writings preceding him here, Dardis writes more to the point after closing the Fitzgerald section of his book. His description of Stanley Rose, the "flamboyant, self-styled con man," who ran a book shop frequented by many of the writers and who himself finally went straight, becoming a literary agent, is almost satisfying. And for a further depiction of the Hollywood scene, Dardis is wise enough to rely on Faulkner's observations rather than his own patchy reporting...