Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Music blared while the victors doused one another with champagne. The Los Angeles Dodgers' former first baseman. Steve Garvey, who came to The Game with his agent. Harvard glad Jerry Kapsteim, after negotiating with Yankees' owner George Steinbrenner in New York, stood at the center of the locker room having his picture taken with Crimson wingback Jim Garvey. Somebody tossed Garvey (Steve, not Jim) a jersey with the wingback's No.33 on it, and the one-time National League MVP held it up during the snapshot session. But for the most part, Garvey, the man who could ask and receive...
...pacification tactic." In New York City's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, itself a combat zone, Larry Smith is equally acid: "We don't need that statue. We need some jobs." He lost his left leg in Viet Nam, and he believes he was contaminated by the defoliant Agent Orange...
Marie Kenney, Local 26's business agent and a former waitress at the Faculty Club, said that in addition to strategic reasons, there were moral grounds for keeping the rank and file informed of the progress of the contract negotiation...
...which licensed Humulin after just five months of testing, one of the quickest approvals in the agency's history. Genentech President Robert Swanson said last week that his company expects to market a number of other new products in the next few years, including an agent that dissolves blood clots and could be useful in treating heart patients, and a human growth hormone that has successfully been tested for more than a year and could be available within twelve months to treat children afflicted with dwarfism...
...reporter vainly ringing the bell at the first house in the row. While his chauffeur is unlocking the door, the passenger, who is also the owner of the house, murmurs apologies. "My dear fellow, I'm so sorry. Were you waiting long? I was having lunch with my agent, and I had a drink, which I'm not supposed to do." An elderly gentleman in gray-green country tweeds and brown suede shoes, he rolls his eyes, as if he is sharing a dark and wicked secret, and wraps his visitor in a furry mantle of charm. Even...