Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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City Health Commissioner Dr. Melvin Chalfen first ordered the Arthur D. Little consulting firm to stop its testing last March. The company immediately countered with a court injunction. Permitting it to continue its work with the chemical warfare agent...
Margaret Neas studied piano at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. She taught, played concerts and composed until an agent suggested supper clubs. "It's the most fun thing in the world," she says. "It's like a party every night." Her son Marc, in the room tonight, recalls, "Her agent said, 'You need a gimmick.' And she said, 'Well, I'll play in gloves.' I remember watching TV with her while she mended her gloves. Now she says it's hard to play without them...
...compromise on Administration spending measures on the grounds that the budget deficit was growing too fast. Though his reputation nationally is that of a moderate conservative, the Republicans have portrayed him in Oklahoma as a free-spending liberal. Both Jones and his opponent, Frank Keating, a former FBI agent and U.S. attorney, are financing expensive campaigns with a blizzard of cash donated by party election funds and political action committees. Since he won with only 54% of the vote in 1982, Jones will be forced to hustle hard. Says Jones of his opponents: "They have got my attention...
...works that have borrowed on the Philby affair, the most successful has been John Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, a maze-like thriller that details the entrapment and confession of a double agent. It was Le Carre who gave currency to the word "mole," a term denoting a traitor implanted deep in an intelligence network that is now a fixed part of espionage jargon. And while Le Carne and others like him explore the professional side of the celebrated case, others concentrate on the story's personal dimensions. This summer's highly acclaimed film, Another Country, based...
...name after being abandoned by her father as a young girl. After a tearful reunion. Penny realizes that her father is the fox in a massive hunt and she hides him away in the country. Yet unbeknownst to Penny, her lover of the past year is also a secret agent working on the case who eventually leads Scaither to Kimberly. Le Carre fans will recognize this twist as a direct crib from Smiley's People, in which George Smiley, by kindnapping his Russian rival's daughter, pulls the heartstrings that lead to his archenemy's capture...