Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Late in March 1981, JoAnn Hinckley drove her son John to the Denver airport and told him not to come home again. A few days later, John Hinckley shot and wounded President Reagan, along with Presidential Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy and D.C. Police Officer Thomas Delahanty. At the trial last May, Mrs. Hinckley said she threw her son out as part of a plan devised by John's psychiatrist, John Hopper Jr., to force him to be less dependent on his parents. Hopper testified that he did not consider his young patient mentally...
...Waiters and waitresses who rely on tips for an income have been backed into a corner," she complains. "The money that kept us going is being taken out of our pay, and our employer has in essence become an IRS agent, whether he likes it or not. The fact is, we're the only ones being penalized. Cabbies and hairdressers who receive tips aren't being forced to report their incomes. And when they were originally going to do something about the three-martini lunches, the big guys raised such a fuss that nothing happened...
...taxpayer does not answer, the computer will hang up and call again in half an hour. It will continue this all day, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, and also Saturday mornings. When the delinquent finally answers, the computer will switch the call to a Treasury agent, and at the same time the agent's video screen will light up with all the details of the taxpayer's derelictions. "This will drastically increase the number of accounts that a revenue agent can contact," says Dean Morrow, acting assistant IRS commissioner for computer services. "And every...
Three Harvard professors attended an international conference in Vietnam in January that examined the impact of dioxin on the offspring of males exposed to Agent Orange...
Research done by Vietnamese scientists indicates a link between exposure to dioxin-faced Agent Orange and birth defects of offspring born to males who were exposed to the chemical American researchers, however, have yet to discover such a link...