Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carlton Fisk blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah money, blah blah blah blah late contract, blah blah blah free agent. Blah blah blah blah blah...
...room of business corruption. In Saudi Arabia, a key government minister is widely reported to have collected upwards of $500 million in "commission fees" in connection with foreign business ventures in the past year alone. To do business in Saudi Arabia, it is essential to be connected, via an agent or middleman, to a member of the royal family, which controls not just the government but business as well. Says a veteran U.S. businessman bluntly: "Everyone needs a prince." Finding one is not hard; there are 5,000 princes in the royal family this underpopulated nation of 6 million...
More confusion surrounds a company's liability under the act for the actions of its foreign agents. If the local representative uses even a part of his commission, as often happens, to bribe officials to keep a deal on track, the act asserts that the U.S. company is responsible if the executives had reason to know what the agent was doing. The GAO study recommends that Congress rewrite the law to give clearer guidance to businessmen as to what they can and cannot do to curry favor with foreign customers. It suggests that Congress repeal the criminal penalties connected...
First Streisand film in which she does not receive top billing (Hackman gets it); first American feature directed by the husband of Hollywood's most powerful agent (Jean-Claude Tramont, spouse to Sue Mengers); first Hollywood movie in ages to end with the legend...
...While his wife is writing for the press "on horses and equitation," Powell's career as a largely unread novelist goes nowhere. He works for Warner Bros, near London, hacking out scripts about messenger boys and Victorian philanthropists. None are produced. In 1937, at the suggestion of his agent, Powell journeys to Hollywood. The high point of his stay in Celluloid City is a lunch at the MGM commissary with Scott Fitzgerald, who draws a rough map of North America for the English visitor, diagramming with arrows the directions from which culture has flowed into...