Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrong. Much to his own-and his neighbors'-surprise, the tires have turned out to be worth much more. An Oklahoma salvage entrepreneur plans to erect a huge shredder at Heidelberger's place; he aims to process the tires to extract oil, added as a rubber-softening agent during manufacture, and steel belting, and to make an oatmeal-like material that can be mixed with hard coal to provide smooth-burning fuel for generating electricity. The salvager's price: 390 to $5 a tire, or as much as $9 million for the whole pile...
...that of Lindbergh's solitary flight. It costs billions of dollars, as against the $15,000 that Lindbergh spent. Astronauts, however highly trained, are nonetheless essentially cargo as they are flung out of gravity on a rocket's nib. The astronaut, says Sir George Greenfield, a literary agent who has specialized in accounts of explorations, "is more like a bus driver than an adventurer." The Viking spacecraft investigating Mars are made of thinking metal. The only humans aboard the Pioneer 10 spacecraft are the little sketches of a man and a woman that are meant to show extraterrestrial...
...staged a town meeting in March 1973 to discuss the question, and one speaker advocated a ban on FOR SALE signs in front yards. A year later the town council passed the idea into law. The ordinance actually had little effect on housing sales, but a real estate agent challenged it, and the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck it down last week. The First Amendment prohibits restrictions on "the free flow of truthful commercial information," wrote Thurgood Marshall, the court's only black Justice. While the ordinance was aimed at "the vital goal" of "promoting stable, racially integrated housing...
...were at dinner, Casper entered the woman's apartment and snatched Wolstencroft's briefcase containing the names of some 300 American depositors in Wolstencroft's bank in the Bahamas. Casper, an undercover informant for the Internal Revenue Service, took the case to an IRS agent, who photocopied the contents. This was all part of an unorthodox IRS investigation known as Project Haven, which was aimed at Caribbean financial high jinks. One of the alleged depositors, listed in the copied documents as having a $100,000 account, was a self-described retired investor, Jack Payner, of Cleveland...
Underlying Chaucer's sturdy, balanced genius, Gardner sees a characteristically medieval conviction that the world made sense. Chaucer viewed man as a "responsible, moral agent in a baffling but orderly universe." Yet his finest work was full of ironical laughter; a "canterbury tale," in medieval slang...