Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal law-enforcement officials as symptomatic of the pervasive lure of illegal drugs as a source of illicit riches. "This shows the incredible ability of drugs to corrupt," claimed one Justice Department official. "You're not surprised to find occasional corruption of a $40,000-a-year FBI agent," he added, "but you don't expect it to reach into the ranks of an $850,000-a-year auto executive. It makes you wonder how many other companies have been saved this...
...agent was sent in as a German-with a forged passport, of course. He adopted a false name, with the middle initial "H." At customs, an official stopped him to comment that it was strange for a German passport to use an initial rather than the entire name; he had never seen one like this before. He began to interrogate our man more closely, and the quick-witted messenger said, "Well, my parents named me Hitler as a baby. Ever since the war, I've been permitted to conceal my full name." The customs official winked and nodded knowingly...
Batmasian, a local real estate agent, says that her private sector experience will help her act responsible in state government "He [Bachrach] doesn't know the private sector because he's never been there," she says...
Some failings of Variety and Hollywood Reporter are common to any trade publication that depends for advertising, and survival, on the very people it covers. Notes Press Agent Gary Kalkin: "The trades exist with the studios' cooperation. If the studios got together and decided to put the trades out of business, they could do it. So the relationship is to keep each other happy...
...bedrooms. Instead, it focuses on the boardrooms of East Coast conglomerates. There, his minimoguls weep, curse and whisper. The reason? Actor Cliff Robertson had informed authorities that a $10,000 check was forged by Begelman. Why, insiders wondered, had the six-figure-salaried studio chief, a former talent agent and model for the ruthless Lyon Burke in Valley of the Dolls, not merely borrowed the money...