Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phone calls or parcel out all staff assignments. Instead, Bush deals directly and informally with a wide range of aides, Cabinet secretaries and outside visitors. A senior Administration official observes that Bush operates as "his own chief of staff" in many ways, as well as "his own best intelligence agent...
Striking machinists and pilots maintained a 60-person picket line at Logan but did not interfere with people crossing it, said Edward Imondi, business agent for Local 1726 of the International Association of Machinists in Boston...
...president and general manager of its $3 billion truck-manufacturing operation, which accounts for 75% of Navistar's revenues. He is now one of the most powerful black executives in the country. Last year, when Roberts was looking for a house in a wealthy Chicago suburb, the real estate agent asked what he did for a living. Pop singer? Baseball player? "It never occurred to him that I could be a corporate executive," Roberts explains. "But it's not his fault. It just shows that America isn't used...
...Ford agency, a division called Classic Woman offers a group of 30 models over age 40. Senior Class, a New York City agency started last year, books 200 men and women 50 to 80. Among them are a retired fireman, a judge and even a onetime IRS agent...
Rushdie, meanwhile, has all the controversy, and attendant celebrity, he has often seemed to crave -- yet with a cruel vengeance. For years Rushdie has been one of Britain's most vocal polemicists, an agent provocateur who has delighted in mixing it up -- even if "it" means politics and literature. His first great novel, Midnight's Children, about India, was successfully challenged by the Prime Minister of India; his second, Shame, about Pakistan, was banned in Pakistan; now the last in his unofficial trilogy, about both India and England, has been banned in India and burned in England...