Word: agent
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Your story failed to mention the contribution that real estate agents' fees have made to soaring real estate prices. Such fees on a $70,000 home are between $4,200 and $7,000 (6% to 10% of the selling price). Because the seller pays the agent to sell his property, he adds an additional 6% to 10% to the selling price of the house. As a result, housing prices are inflated by thousands of dollars every time a house is sold. Since we Americans are moving at an increasing rate, currently once every three years, it is easy...
...companies and entrepreneurs who have developed the arms trade. Sampson, author of books on ITT and the oil companies, has had considerable experience in writing exposes. The Sears and Roebuck-like brochures produced by the British foreign service, the $106 million Lockheed paid to a single Arab business agent over five years, and numerous other interesting details are recounted. Sampson concentrates on the activities of the Western nations partly because they are more involved and less policy-oriented than the Soviets, but also because the information is more available. However, Sampson is quick to say that the Soviet Union...
Meanwhile, the flow of new immigrants continues. In the heavily traveled Chula Vista corridor between Tijuana and San Diego, beefed-up U.S. patrols picked up 35,100 illegals last month, compared with 21,300 in August of last year. Says a Border Patrol agent: "They are anticipating that they are going to heaven in the U.S. where all the goodies are." Many of them probably never heard of Carter's program. "And even if they knew," says Leonel Castillo, Immigration and Naturalization commissioner, "the prime factor is jobs." No matter why they come, many of their predecessors...
...funds were deposited in a Vienna bank that failed. His only real hope for bringing Mengele to justice would be Israeli intelligence, but the Israelis find the operation too risky. They have sent several teams to Paraguay to study a possible Mengele snatch. After losing at least one agent on a reconnaissance mission, they concluded that the potential losses involved in taking Mengele from his jungle hideaway were prohibitively high...
Some of Bernstein's charges were denied as quickly as the text of the article was made available by Rolling Stone. "No CBS News person has ever served as an agent of the CIA or any other intelligence agency while in the employ of CBS," insisted the network. Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan said he had never condoned or known of any CIA use of TIME correspondents and said he would be "amazed" if any such arrangements had ever been approved by the late Henry Luce, Time Inc. cofounder. "Harry Luce had a very scrupulous regard...