Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coonhound medicine, and has such a sizable paunch that when he told a clothing salesman, "I'd like to see something to fit this," the man replied, "I would too." For more than two decades Bunting has also been a North Carolina legend, the pre-eminent undercover county revenue agent in a state where the making of illegal alcohol is considered next door to a constitutional right. Bunting has been so good at his work that many local folk assume he is "a conjure doctor," a devil's ally who "can read your mind like it's you thinking." Bunting...
...disasters at Robins and Manville are only the two biggest cases in an epidemic of product-liability problems that has clogged courts, shaken American companies and raised the costs and risks of doing business. Last year Dow Chemical and other producers of Agent Orange, a defoliant used in Viet Nam, agreed to pay $180 million to veterans who said they developed cancer and other ailments because of exposure to the chemical. The claims were never proved, but the companies settled rather than face an endless siege in court. American Motors has paid out millions of dollars as a result...
Espionage rivalry between the two Germanys has long been intense. Last year 24 suspected East German agents were arrested in West Germany, and 18 were convicted on espionage charges. For Bonn, the week's events add up to the most serious spy scandal since 1974, when then Chancellor Willy Brandt resigned after an aide, Gunter Guillaume, was arrested on charges of being an East German agent. Says Richard Meier, former head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution: "It is a catastrophe that can set us back years...
...Forest Service is not releasing the names of the four until it decides whether to take civil action against them. The man allegedly responsible for igniting the blaze has been fined $100, the customary amount levied for starting a fire without a permit, said Benjamin Hull, a special agent with the Forest Service...
Yesterday, Harvard contacted Barbara Rice, business agent of the Hotel and Restaurant Worker Local 26 in an attempt to reschedule talks. Harvard officials claim Rice said the caste was closed, Rice, however, claims that she said nothing of the sort...