Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meticulous formality of its records, the lovely mythic accessibility of the sport's past to its present) now grew disheveled. Local TV stations ran ancient episodes of Gomer Pyle instead of ball games. Somewhere in a high-rise Manhattan hotel, Mammon and the Grinch negotiated free-agent compensation, the main issue in the major league players' strike-the old push-and-shove of player freedom vs. owner control. But the noises coming through the door sounded rather slow and stupid, like Brer B'ar: "Ah'm gonna knock yo' haid clean off." If the Soviet...
...Electronic Laboratories, Inc., of Falls Church, Va., which had long furnished the CIA with classified equipment, agreed to build prototypes for Gaddafi's order. The deal was set at a meeting in a Virginia bar attended by William Weisenburger, then on active duty with the CIA, and another agent working undercover at American Electronic. Libya eventually placed an order for 300,000 timers-far more than needed to blow up any possible number of imagined Israeli mines...
...documents, according to Hersh, disclose that Wilson and Terpil had set up a training program in Libya in "espionage, sabotage and general psychological warfare." It included a laboratory near Tripoli for making assassination bombs disguised as ashtrays, lamps or teakettles. An active CIA agent, Pat Loomis, allegedly helped induce some Green Berets training at Fort Bragg, N.C., to leave the Special Forces and join the Libyan operation as instructors...
...subsequent contract negotiations between the Players Association and the owners, the players agreed to limit free-agent status to those who had spent at least six years in the big leagues (the average major league tenure is slightly more than four years). The players also agreed to give a team that loses an athlete to free agency one of his new club's picks in the annual draft of amateur players. Even with these limitations, free-agent bidding quickly soared into the stratosphere, and owners found themselves throwing millions at sore-armed pitchers and journeyman outfielders. The owners...
...that issue, the negotiations foundered. To maintain competitive balance, the owners argued, clubs had to receive a player comparable in stature to the departing free agent. Under their proposal, a team that signed a free agent would be allowed to exempt 15 players from its major and minor league rosters; the player's original team would be able to pick a compensatory player from those who remained...