Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditional party structures served to organize possibilities, to discipline people and ideas into workable forms. When practically every politician is a free agent, there is a tendency toward the anarchic, which may be a perfect political reflection of a narcissistic decade. In the absence of party loyalty, officeholders may find it easier to exercise their integrity, although of course they may also owe fealty to some private lobby. In either case, they tend to lose the talent for compromise and concerted effort. Single-issue zealotry, which is rewarded in the new enlarged primary system, can contaminate the entire political process...
...price of one-family homes in the university area currently averages about $100.000, a local real estate agent said yesterday...
Tiant, 38, entered the free-agent draft when the Red Sox management refused to offer him anything more than a one-year contract, because of his age. The herky-jerky motioned pitcher was not selected until the eighth round and by only one team--the Yanks...
Last season, Tiant compiled a 13-8 record with a 3.31 earned run average. He had been with the Boston club since 1971, when they picked him up as a free agent after the Minnesota Twins released...
...guilty about hiring others to do their dirty work, and the problem has often been debated in women's groups. Says Pam Gray, a Los Angeles attorney: "I am so grateful that I am probably less demanding of my cleaning woman than I am of another type of agent, like an accountant or a travel agent...