Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corporation or an agent of the Corporation still appoints the same eight members as ever. The Joint Committee on Appointments is practically as much an agent of the Corporation as the President is. Even this connection ought to be broken," the council report says...
...guess things really started going wrong at LaGuardia. As soon as I had fought my way off of the plane, I asked my "customer service agent" for directions to the Piedmont terminal for my connection to Roanoke. Fifteen minutes later, standing in front of the female employee's bathroom, I decided I should try to find...
Whatever relief I felt at emerging from the enormous, unpleasant mass of humanity which clogged the airport and finding the right gate was lost when I saw what was going on. The travel agent's snickering thundered in my ears as I took my place in the longest line I had seen since "Porky's" opened in Roanoke...
...agent abandoned me and ran over to see what was wrong. Apparently, the man had secured a seat and a boarding pass for the recently departed Norfolk flight, and then totally missed the boarding call...
...time I finally got my seat, there were only three left on the plane. "It's in the smoking section, I'm afraid," the agent smiled, "but it's right next to the bathroom...