Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hartsdale, N. Y.' a young wife asks a rental agent: "Do you have any nice, one bedroom $350-a-month apartments...
...Sure, lady," replies the agent, "we got a lot of $350 apartments. But we're getting $600 for them...
They do without and put off having families while the wife works full time to make ends meet. Last year almost half of all home buyers were families with two incomes. Says Patti Garmel, a Los Angeles real estate agent: "I think some people wind up looking at four walls because they can't afford to go to a movie...
...years the UFCW has been battling the Seattle-First National Bank, the largest in the Northwest, to recognize the union as the bargaining agent for the bank's employees. The union has persuaded labor organizations and civic groups to withdraw deposits of more than $125 million from Seafirst. It has also begun to ask other unions to take their pension funds from Seafirst's correspondent banks in an effort to get them to break their ties. Last week the AFL-CIO called for a national boycott of Seafirst by union pension-fund managers...
...murdered, but throughout Iran it was widely assumed that SAVAK was responsible. On the occasion of his son's death, the Ayatullah wrote a letter to the Iranian people that is now regarded as the crucial document of the revolution. After denouncing the "absurdities of this incompetent agent [the Shah] and his family of looters," Khomeini declared, "it is the responsibility of the Iranian army and its heads to liberate their country from destruction." Khomeini thus established himself as leader of the revolution by calling upon the armed forces to overthrow the Shah. Hundreds of thousands of copies...