Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theory that has received the greatest speculation is that Oswald was an agent for someone, and speculations on for whom are a dime a dozen. As a Russian KGB agent, evidence, circumstantial mostly, points to his defection to the Soviet Union, and his easy employment and marriage, and very easy departure back to the U.S., a rarity for defectors. In a trip to Mexico in 1963, Oswald met with a KGB agent working in its "liquid affairs" department, the department utilized for assassination in Soviet intelligence...
...metaphorical capital of the world, has been compared by one side or the other with all of these and more. The real Grenada is none of the above. The upheaval there was not, as it was in Iran, a xenophobic religious revolution that saw in every American an agent of Satan and a spy. Grenada was not, like Cuba or Nicaragua, a regional power that could project real force against its neighbors (though it would still be valuable to a great power as a staging point; in this respect it resembled, if anything, other useful dots on the map like...
...Times-Mirror Company, the official sponsor of the festival, will pay the ART for its services. Income from ticket sales will go to the Olympic Organizing Committee, according to Jedediah Wheeler, booking agent for the ART's tours...
...passengers ceremoniously sipped champagne. Before disembarking, the travelers stripped the aircraft of most detachable memorabilia, including seat-number plaques and safety instruction cards. Flight attendants used their lipsticks to write "Goodbye, we love you" on walls and seats. On the plane's silver fuselage a Miami gate agent had scribbled, "I was the last agent to close the door on a 707." But at J.F.K. another agent crossed out that message and wrote, "Sorry, you lose." Said Pilot Shaun Shattuck, 44: "I will miss the 707 terribly. I grew up with it. It's been a reliable...
Meselson: Yes, but we have found spots where the composition was very different. That's also true with bee feces because no two bees eat the same meals. They eat differently. They store the pollen heterogeneously and they eat it heterogeneously. So if this had been an agent of warfare, with no two spots being the same, it would mean that whoever is doing this makes teeny little batches, makes them all different, and sprays them all separately...