Word: agent
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...record, Gordie grew up on the wheatfields of Saskatchewan. He scored his first professional goal in 1946. He has played on the same squad as his two sons, Mark and Marty. His agent is his wife, Colleen. He has played against Orr, Hull, the Espositos, the Richards, and the Russians. He possessed the wickedest pair of elbows in sports, football giants notwithstanding...
...Afghanistan (the National Security Council's Special Coordination Committee, chaired by Brzezinski, had all but predicted the invasion a week in advance); rather, Carter was shocked by the Soviets' duplicity and cynicism in killing their own erstwhile protégé, Hafizullah Amin, branding him a CIA agent, and then claiming that Amin's government had "invited" the invasion...
...Pintos, Agent Orange and asbestos await court answers...
...civil suits involving allegations that Pintos made from 1971 through 1976 are unusually prone to catching fire when hit from the rear. But in the Indiana trial, the company is facing criminal charges of reckless homicide, the first such action ever brought against an automaker. The makers of Agent Orange, a herbicide used in Viet Nam, are being sued by ex-servicemen who say the chemical caused a variety of ailments. Asbestos producers face enormous claims for diseases caused by their product's dust...
...planned to marry Diane Keaton. (He was not fooled and refused to answer her questions.) More invidious are the payoffs that have long been a part of gossip journalism. Typically, a bartender or maitre d' will be paid $25 to $50 for a story tip, and a publicity agent or someone else in the know will get a couple of hundred dollars for confirmation. Says Paul Corkery, a former Enquirer reporter and now an editor at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner: "One thing I liked is that it is the last refuge of scoundrels. You do anything...