Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three-year contract reinstates the Union's Blue Cross- Blue Shield Health Plan that management had threatened to cut, said Barbara Rice, business agent for Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant, Institutional Employees and Bartenders Union, which represented the strikers...
...that a presidential campaign should be a dramatic examination of the nation's values and goals. Some such differentiation did occur, especially at the two conventions. In San Francisco, New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson elaborated the Mondale theme of Democratic inclusiveness and Government as the agent of progress. In Dallas, the Republicans ridiculed that as a negative, weakling vision. To them, the private sector is America's genius...
...allow his group to question the man believed to be the author of the manual, who was described by the Administration as a "lowlevel" operative on contract to the CIA. "We know who he is, and the CIA knows where he is," said Mineta, who maintains that the agent is still employed...
...press conference after the arrests, FBI Spokesman Joseph Corliss said the bureau learned of the plot in July from an unnamed "cooperating witness." The informant introduced FBI Special Agent Eduardo M. Sanchez to the plotters, who hired him as the assassin. In addition to a $300,000 fee and 22 lbs. of cocaine, the conspirators promised Sanchez weapons, night-vision equipment, explosives, tanks, airplanes and miscellaneous military ordnance for the proposed coup. The agent was instructed to hire four other hitmen to help carry out the assassination...
...Part of the journeying will be through a parallel world called the Territories, a kind of theme-park Camelot, where "they have magic like we have physics." Some earthlings have "twinners" there-Jack's mother is, almost, the dying Queen Laura, and his uncle Morgan, a greedy Hollywood agent, is a medieval menace who lurks in the shadows...