Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cheap. But even with a little wooded acreage, their prices are dramatically lower than large houses without land in Westchester County, N. Y. The really good news is that owners pay proportionately far less in property and school taxes. Medford schools are harder to assess. Real Estate Agent Billie Powers recalls that when she moved up from California, her children had to be tutored to catch up to Oregon classmates. But a high school sophomore whose family just came from the Dakotas has a different idea. "Much easier here," he says. "Too many electives. Back home everybody had to take...
...officer at the embassy, it was a particularly blessed moment. He was one of the hostages treated most harshly by the militants. He spent a total of 261 days in solitary confinement because of his constant defiance. His captors were convinced that their Farsi-speaking prisoner was a CIA agent. They interrogated him more than a dozen times, usually late at night and for up to seven hours at a time. Says Metrinko: "They had broken into my office safe, and they had the names and phone numbers of all my Iranian friends. They would...
...them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they're sick, and provide opportunity to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory?" Reagan did not attempt to reconcile his attack on government, which is the main agent in society for aiding the needy, with his concern for the poor. He gave no fresh ideas, nor did he indicate any imaginative approaches for resolving the problems of the economy without placing a greater burden, at least in the short run, on those who depend on government for their...
...embassy." One of the secretaries was Terri Tedford, whose father Orville told TIME that his daughter had been strapped blindfolded to a chair for nine hours. He added: "The gun was held to her head for the entire time as they accused her of being a CIA agent. She figured that they were going to kill her anyway, so she told them they were a bunch of s.o.b.s...
...first week of September, the West German government informed American diplomats that Iran wanted to open negotiations about the hostages through a secret emissary. The agent was Sadegh Tabatabai, a brother-in-law of Khomeini's son Seyyed Achmed and a former Deputy Prime Minister under Mehdi Bazargan...