Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American Administrations have always opposed creation of a federal agency that could wind up monopolizing oil imports, but some congressional leaders, like Ohio Democrat Charles Vanik, now call for setting one up. Vanik argues that a national buying agent could help lower OPEC prices, although there is no evidence that European deals have had that effect...
...issue is nothing so mundane as money but rather the future of the free-agent system that has evolved since 1975, when baseball's age-old reserve clause was struck down. Under the court ruling, players could become free agents whenever they played out their options, and the teams they left were not entitled to compensation from the team they moved to. The next year, the players agreed to soften the blow to the owners: they signed a contract that called for a minimum of six years with a team before ballplayers could declare themselves free agents, and each...
Naipaul blows his cover as Joseph Conrad's secret agent to the abandoned worlds of imperialism. Naipaul was born in Trinidad of Hindu descent and, like Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski, made England his home. Like Conrad, Naipaul writes of social upheaval, solitude, madness and evil, but as they apply to the colonized, not the colonizers. And he is merciless...
...FRANCISCO GIANTS--Lots of question marks. Will the pitching sparkle like in 1978 or collapse like last year? Can Willie McCovey (.249, 15 homers, 57 rbi's) make it one more year? Where is millionaire free-agent Rennie (.239) Stennett going to play, and why? Fourth and falling...
...fumes almost knocked me down--I was choking and crying," Norman A. Lally, general agent of the train yard who was sitting in a trailer 15 feet from the tank car when the accident occurred, said yesterday...