Word: agent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...task for Vellucci, who as a state representative can hire only one assistant, is less extensive. Yet the East Cambridge insurance agent is easily devoting as much time to his effort. Like Harshbarger, Vellucci gained his seat by beating a long-time incumbent in the Democratic primary, and he did so largely by promising to devote more attention to the needs of his constituents...
...northeast of San Diego. Hoffman and several other men were arrested last year and charged with conspiring to import cocaine. A Government informant had been part of that group. Hoffman, married and a father, confessed and agreed to become an informant in return for probation. His main handler: DEA Agent John Valestra. The Government claims De Lorean approached Hoffman last July, seeking quick cash from a drug deal. It was finally Agent Valestra who, posing as a drug financier, helped set up the arrest of De Lorean...
Weinberg has shown that only a minuscule amount of damage is needed to turn one of these normal genes into an agent of cancer. A gene from a normal human bladder cell contains about 6,000 chemical constituents or bases. The difference between this gene and one that produces bladder cancer involves only one of those 6,000 bases. Says Weinberg: "That very subtle change led to the creation of a tumor...
Figures collected by the Secretary of State's election division showed that insurance agent Peter Vellucci won the 29th Middlesex State Representative seat with 7921 votes, or 83 percent. His opponent, Independent Larry Beeferman received 1687 votes, or 17 percent...
...Cardinal Manager Whitey Herzog had bravely traded to Milwaukee in 1980, homered in each of the first two games that the teams split in St. Louis. Darrell Porter, Herzog's former catcher at Kansas City whom he had signed to a fiveyear, $3.5 million contract as a free agent, had the decisive hit in Game 2, a home run in Game 6 and a single of some importance in Game 7. "Every time I got another hit," Porter noticed as he went along, "a few more folks quit booing." Eight for 28, Porter batted .286 in the series...