Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...star witness was a Foreign Ministry employee, Marlene Moncada, who claimed to have been working as a double agent: she said a CIA agent recruited her last year in Honduras, where she was stationed at the Nicaraguan embassy. Cerna showed off an espionage kit allegedly provided Moncada by the CIA (Sony short-wave radio, edible paper, hollow Mayan book ends containing codebooks), as well as photographs of her meeting with Rodriguez and a color videotape montage of various other rendezvous. (The Sandinistas displayed a funny show-biz bent: the video agitprop had a musical sound track appropriate...
What a dastardly deed you committed, revealing the secret and outcome of the Return of the Jedi before its release! You would make a fine agent for the Empire...
DIVORCED. Robert MacNeil, 52, TV journalist and co-host of PBS's nightly MacNeil/Lehrer Report; and Jane Doherty MacNeil, 42, antiques dealer and photographers' and jewelers' agent; after 18 years of marriage (his second, her first), two children; in White Plains...
...moderate-left," noting that Fuentes was "part of a generation [of Latin American intellectuals] that came to literary and political maturity in the context of the Cuban Revolution and U.S. hostility to it." Womack also noted that the American Central Intelligence Agency once suspected Fuentes of being a Soviet agent and denied him a visa to enter the U.S. during the 1960s...
...money and/or other players. If a player has a higher marginal revenue product for Team A than for Team B (because he is a hometown hero, or fills a gap at third base, etc.), one would expect Team A to bid more than Team B in the free agent marker. Similarly before the free agency system was pot into effect. Team A could have paid the money directly to Team B for the player. Since its marginal revenue product for the player is greater, it would be willing to pay Team B a sum equivalent to the marginal revenue product...