Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chic suburb for the well-to-do. Then, around 1880, the city extended its elevated lines to the north. Handsome neighborhoods sprang up, and by the early 1900s, Harlem bustled with urbanity. But the speculators had built too much too fast. So in 1904 a black real estate agent named Philip A. Payton rented apartments to blacks who were even then being displaced from their midtown homes by the new Pennsylvania Station railyards. The scheme succeeded beyond the speculators' wildest nightmares. By the 1920s, Harlem was mostly black...
...entrepreneurs who will perform any service within their expertise, for anywhere between $25 and $50 an hour. They chauffeur people to airports, return video tapes, cater parties. "I can pick up the phone and ask them to do anything," says Debbie Findura, 35, a part- time real estate agent who has called them to fix a light bulb that broke off in the socket, remove a live lizard she found in her oven, and deliver a package of hot-dog buns for one of her family picnics. "We charged $20 to deliver 59 cents worth of hot-dog buns," says...
Frilot, a three-year starter on the offensive line and an all-Ivy pick the last two seasons, has also been in contact with NFL clubs. Like Hinz, he has signed with an agent...
...worst comes to worst, I'll try out as a free agent," Hinz said. "I've dreamed about playing professionally, but it didn't become reality until the last few years. It's hard to imagine yourself as a professional football player. I realize now that it's not out of reach, and I'm going to take whatever comes...
Last week, by a vote of 7 to 2, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Sokolow's detention on drug charges, in an opinion that granted federal agents broad discretion to use "drug-courier profiles" to question and search travelers at airports. Writing for the court, Chief Justice William Rehnquist conceded - that Sokolow's behavior could have been "consistent with innocent travel." But "taken together," his actions elicited "reasonable suspicion." Concluded Rehnquist: "The fact that these factors may be set forth in a 'profile' does not somehow detract from their evidentiary significance." Dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall saw things quite differently...