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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...union officials felt the company was negotiating in bad faith, John Murphy, a business agent for Local 122, told the city council last night...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain and Catherine L. Schmidt, S | Title: Busch Employees Strike to Join Union | 11/1/1983 | See Source »

...arranges to meet him in a piano bar called The Fling. Identifying himself only as "Jay," the engineer starts telling his story over Bloody Marys and proposes a deal: if the attorney, William Dougherty, can win a promise of immunity from the U.S. Government, the engineer will turn double agent and pass information on Polish-KGB espionage to the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Love of Money and Adventure | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

Back in the U.S., Harper and Schuler continued to live modestly. Whatever his motive in contacting Dougherty - repentance, fear, a desire to raise the stakes by playing double agent, or some mixture of all three - he picked the attorney's name out of a book that correctly identified Dougherty as having represented Christopher Boyce, who was convicted of selling secrets to the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Love of Money and Adventure | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...blank sky, is al most the only change (apart from eyeline) from one panel to the next. In this way -paradoxically enough, in view of her constricted subject - Bartlett emerges as a master of narrative tone. There is more in her garden than could ever have met the house agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Revelations in a Dank Garden | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...indictment traces the flow of illegal cash from the Stardust counting and cashier's cages through a number of bagmen for delivery to Mob leaders in the three Midwest cities. FBI agents, for example, claim to have followed Joseph Talerico, a Teamster business agent from Chicago, on monthly trips between Las Vegas and Chicago that sometimes took more than a week as he tried to throw off any trackers. The agents have sworn they watched Talerico pick up packages from a Stardust executive and then meet Aiuppa in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaking the Mob's Grip | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

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