Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basic cause of conflict is a wage dispute involving the Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions (L.O.), which represents 2 million workers, and the Swedish Employers Confederation (S.A.F.), bargaining agent for 36,000 companies. L.O. is seeking pay hikes averaging 11.3%. S.A.F. has offered only 2.3%. After L.O. mounted a month-long ban on overtime work to pressure employers, S.A.F. responded by locking out 770,000 unionized workers. Meanwhile, after separate public-sector wage negotiations broke down, four other unions mounted "point strikes" of key government-paid employees, which crippled air and ground transport, curtailed hospital services and closed down...
...getting much sympathy in broadcasting circles. The competition for the Moscow TV rights was an unseemly affair marked by double-dealing, broken promises, and the machinations of mysterious intermediaries. NBC finally won out by striking a bargain with the shadowy Bock, who initially was CBS's agent in the negotiations. He had been paid a cool $1.7 million and had the Games virtually locked up for the network. But CBS pulled out at the last minute, saying it was appalled by the Soviets' deviousness during the bargaining. Bock then offered the Olympics to NBC, in return...
...Pear" be cause of his shape, Harvey was, says Mar tin, "the secret war made flesh." The bluff, boisterous Harvey began his career at the FBI, where his macho style offended J. Edgar Hoover. Transferring to the CIA, he took with him an encyclopedic knowledge of Soviet agents operating in the U.S. Harvey, contemptuous of striped-pants types, was the first, declares Martin, to identify Philby as a Soviet spy. The fact that Phil by traveled in the best circles did not mislead Harvey as it did others. In a memo digging into many dark corners of Philby...
...summoned to Moscow in 1935 for training as an agent of the Comintern, the international Communist umbrella organization founded in 1919; but he ignored a call to return there in 1937, when Stalin's bloodthirsty purges were at their height. This may have saved his life. He later said: "When I went to Moscow, I never knew whether I would come back alive." In 1939 the Comintern confirmed him as general secretary of the Yugoslav Communist Party...
...deal more like baseball's free agent wars than one of the most unusual swaps in international business. A Scottish-born U.S. investment banker signed a contract to run one of England's largest government-owned companies. In return, the New York firm he is leaving will be compensated by receiving up to $4.1 million. Members of Parliament denounced the indemnity plan as "monstrous" and "farcical." One M.P. compared it to something straight out of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta...