Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Khun Sa's mercenaries and their local allies. In the surrounding jungle are the rival forces of a pro-Communist warlord known as ABe. Periodically, bursts of machine-gun fire echo down the mountainside. Ambushes are frequent, and victims seldom receive a proper burial. Says a Western narcotics agent: "There seems to be only one rule when warlords fight. Kill anything that moves...
...study law at Stanford, inspired by the spectral array of lawsuits surrounding him. They include former San Diego Owner Irv Levin's claim that Walton and his doctors should have warned Levin of the congenital foot problem in 1979. Only in spirit was Walton the freest free agent, leader of the champion Portland Trail Blazers of 1976-77, the N.B.A.'s most valuable player of 1977-78, the vegetarian center from U.C.L.A. who gave the Establishment such pluperfect hell in the early...
...continue to dissect the feminine psyche and situation, a growing cadre of women has enlarged and honored the literary mainstream. Their books, characterized by less dogmatic treatments of both men and women, and with themes expanded to include family, children and political events, are what New York City Literary Agent Lynn Nesbit calls "postfeminist writings...
...conform to other people's ideas, he can't take criticism and rubs his colleagues and friends the wrong way Hoffman shows Dorsey's brittle talent in every detailed highly taut motion. Basically a failure, Dorsey frantically waits tables, instructs a fledgling group of actors, and fights with an agent who can get him any acting stints. Yet glittering of charm he behind the rigid actor as he goes throughout his hectic existence...
...growing evidence that a transmissible agent may be involved bodes well for the eventual development of a vaccine for AIDS. Right now, however, there is not even a specific therapy. Says Pediatrician James Oleske of Newark, who has been treating eight of the children: "We are doing lots of things, but four have died. I am disheartened and frightened...