Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Department of Buildings and Grounds, which repaired the leak on Tuesday, said the fumes posed no serious threat. The problem developed when water, anti-freeze, and an anti-bacterial agent leaked into the cooling system early last week...
Ullman balances this torrent of abuse by including the perspectives of four maverick representatives of the music business. Management agent Maxine Gregg, who orchestrated Gordon's wildly successful "homecoming," claims that many jazz musicians could succeed like Gordon if they were willing to do some long-range career planning, but she concedes that a vicious cycle must be broken first...
...owners, in their quest for free-agent talent, pushed salaries to dizzying heights; former California Angels Pitcher Nolan Ryan, for instance, was signed last winter by the Houston Astros for $1 million-plus a year. So now the proprietors are seeking to cool the competition for stars: they have proposed that a club that signs a highly sought-after free agent must allow his former team to take one of its players in return...
...players say this would crimp their prospects on the free-agent market. Certainly the need to surrender proven quality in exchange for open market talent would inhibit many acquisitive owners. But Players Association Executive Director Marvin Miller insists that the game has benefited from interest in high-priced stars. Says Miller: "In the years since free agency, baseball has set four straight records for attendance, gate receipts and TV revenues. Now they say we have to agree to go backward...
...face: a pleasant, inoffensive actor who is just right for light entertainments like Chapter Two. It is brave enough for him to play the leading role that of an inarticulate factory workerin Hide in Plain Sight, since it is the kind of small, sober film no agent would regard as a good career move." But this is also Caan's debut as a director. To choose this true story of a man trying to find and then recover his children, who have been abducted by no less an institution than the U.S. Government, shows real courage...