Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party host, provided the details of how he gave 31 past and present Congressmen, two congressional candidates and President Nixon's re-election committee upward of $850,000 in gifts and "campaign contributions." Indicted last September on 36 counts including mail fraud, failure to register as a foreign agent and bribery, Park testified with immunity from prosecution and claimed: "What I have done in Washington constitutes an American success story, on a small scale...
...blame for the failure must be equally divided between a feebly developed script and stupefying direction. The basic story is a Bad News Bears knockoff. A down-on-his-luck Hollywood talent agent (Allen Garfield) becomes fascinated by skateboarding kids as he commutes to and from the unemployment office. He decides to organize a team to put on exhibitions and enter the competitions that are a growing part of this phenomenon. Pressed by a gambler to pay off a debt, he unpleasantly pushes the kids, loses his star on the eve of the big down hill race but sees...
James P. Costello, general agent for Local 40--the B&G carpenters' branch of the MTC--countered the University allegations of illegality, saying that the Harvard-MTC agreement "does not deal with a dispute over job security." Once again, as in the disagreement over contracting-out work, the two sides contradicted each other. This time, though, the University, not the union, took action...
...Napalm is a chemical agent developed by U.S. scientists in the 1940s. When added to gasoline it forms a gel which can be dispersed over a wide area by a bomb. The gel sticks to whatever it hits until it slowly consumes itself. It causes fourth degree burns...
...finally locates a shop that actually under takes to fix small appliances. There, after waiting meekly in line for an hour or so, he/she sets Magico on a counter for the disdainful inspection of a stern young man who might be an oral surgeon or IRS agent manqué (22-J). Inspector will variously diagnose the appliance (22-K to 22-Z) as klunky, a lemon, mismanufactured, nonfunctioning, off-brand, plastic, quirky, rachitic, substandard, tinny, unredeemable, valueless, wonky, Xrated, Why-Fix-It? and zapped already...