Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Dr. Michael Gottlieb of U.C.L.A. told Los Angeles health officials that he had five patients, all of them active homosexuals, who were suffering from an unusual and deadly form of pneumonia, pneumocystis carinii. More alarming still, their immune systems seemed to have broken down. Gottlieb and an EIS agent based in Los Angeles reported the grim news in CDC's weekly publication. Almost simultaneously, Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien of New York University noted that several of his homosexual patients had the same weakened immune systems and were suffering from Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare cancer of the skin usually...
...found irrelevant, put questions himself, and pushed both sides with his familiar exhortation "Get on with it!" He rendered important school desegregation decisions; he consistently opposed 1960s peacenik protesters, saying, "I never let a deserter try the Viet Nam War"; and he ruled in 1978 that ex-CIA Agent Frank Snepp had violated a contractual pledge of secrecy by publishing a critical account of the 1975 fall of Saigon, a ruling upheld by the Supreme Court in 1980. In recent years, appellate judges had begun to overturn his rulings for "glaring errors" and "predetermining the outcome" of cases...
...expected, Howard Sands, Harvard's top tennis player the past four years, has turned pro and will sign a contract this week with a management agent group. The recent graduate will spend the summer trying to qualify for pro tournaments and establish an ATP ranking...
Satire's delivery agent was Vice President Spiro Agnew, a nay boob. The souffles later collapsed in acrimony...
...take seriously Jesus' mandate: Blessed are the peacemakers! Addressing the contemporary questions of peace and war in a scholarly fashion and in the context of our Christian teaching and tradition would be a great service both to the Catholic community and the wider society. Another important agent in this task of shaping a community of conscience is you. I urge you to lend your own voice to the discussion. You do this, of course, more by example than by word. The church's witness is really your witness because the church's witness is tied...