Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Otherwise, Civiletti acknowledged no wrong. A day earlier, Joel Lisker, who heads the Justice Department's foreign agents registration unit, had raised several questions in the Senators' minds. He recalled that on June 11, when he told Civiletti that Billy Carter had admitted receiving $220,000 from the Libyans, the Attorney General had ordered him to "wait ten days and see what happens." Six days later, as Civiletti has said, he warned the President that his brother was "foolish" for not registering as a foreign agent (Billy finally did so on July...
...tense weeks, the world had watched a surreal spectacle: a Communist government at first denouncing, then publicly negotiating with, its own rebellious workers. No less remarkable was the display of discipline, organization and shrewd negotiating skills provided by the Gdansk-based Interfactory Strike Committee (MKS) that became the bargaining agent for over 400 Baltic enterprises. Most astounding of all were the agreements that finally ended the major strikes. In addition to pay raises and increased social benefits, Gierek's regime had granted -on paper at least-a spate of political concessions unprecedented anywhere in a Communist country: independent, worker...
Coming off a spectacular (7-0) senior season, the former Crimson hurler latched onto the Chicago Cubs organization as a free agent and pitched for the Geneva, N.Y., entry in the single-A New York-Penn. league...
...latter-day kind? Film Producer Dino De Laurentiis thinks so, provided a few adjustments are made. In Flash Gordon, opening in December, the hero is no longer a polo-playing Yale grad but a New York Jets quarterback. His girl, Dale Arden, has become a working woman-a travel agent. And the hand-cranked special effects of Buster Crabbe's day have given way to Star Wars technics. Arch enemy Ming the Merciless hasn't changed a bit. Still "a mixture of Mephisto and Rasputin," says Max von Sydow, who portrays him. "I haven't had such...
...sales departments to make an extra effort on behalf of their books. The average editor is doing all this on at least a dozen books at a time. These are busy operatives with a built-in dilemma. Houghton Mifflin's Jonathan Galassi sees the editor as a double agent. "With the writer, he is collaborator, psychiatrist, confessor and amanuensis; in the publishing house, he must be politician, diplomat, mediator...