Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal officials. Trying to explain away the matter once and for all, the White House issued a paper outlining its dealings with Billy and his Libyan friends and flatly denying that anyone in the White House had ever discussed Billy's failure to register as a foreign agent with anyone in the Justice Department. But that only made things worse-much worse. Three days later Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti had to recall publicly that he had, after all, discussed the subject briefly with the President himself on June 17. That statement touched off fresh Republican cries of a "coverup...
...deal decisively with an intimate who was callously abusing his ties to the Oval Office. And he had once again made it possible to ask troublesome questions about his judgment. It simply made no sense that a member of the President's family had served as the agent of a foreign-and often unfriendly-nation. The President could and should have done something to stop it. Instead, the White House, perhaps accidentally, actually contributed to Billy's role as a go-between with Libya...
...turning to Billy Carter, Brzezinski greatly strengthened his image among the Libyans as a power broker in Washington. And all of this at a time when Brzezinski knew that the President's brother was under investigation for his failure to register as a Libyan agent...
...institute is four years old. Among its 200 members are a travel agent with a Ph.D. in medieval Irish history from City University of New York; a public relations executive with a Ph.D. in European history from Bryn Mawr, who is compiling biographical materials for Yale's Sterling Memorial Library; and a Columbia University Ph.D. now employed at the New York Stock Exchange, who has just co-authored an article on philanthropic housing from 1870 to 1910 for the Journal of Urban History...
...them noninfectious to humans. Those harmful to people cause birth defects, chicken pox and shingles, and mononucleosis (the "kissing disease"). The ones implicated in venereal disease are herpes simplex types 1 and 2. The first type triggers fever blisters, or cold sores, around the mouth: it is also an agent in various eye ailments that can, if untreated, lead to blindness. The second usually shows up in the genital area of both sexes, and sometimes on the thighs and buttocks. Both types can be transmitted between mouth and genitals by oral...