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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Okay, so he doesn't look like a first-round draft pick, or even a free agent from the CBA. And he probably belongs on Letterman with Larry "Bud" Melman instead on the Utah bench...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Eight FAN-tastic NBA Season Facts | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

Werlin said Bragg's agent told him in June that the artist was interested in a performance at the University during his trip to Boston because he wanted to address Harvard's stand on South African apartheid. Werlin said his staff asked WHRB to sponsor the concert and check whether Sanders Theater would be available...

Author: By Samantha L. Heller, | Title: Billy Bragg Promoter Says Concert At Harvard Was Never Confirmed | 11/2/1988 | See Source »

These gallant few provide the standard by which everyone else is judged: Nazis and their collaborators and, most important to Ophuls, the people who sheltered Barbie for almost 40 years. These include American counterintelligence officers who used him as an anti-Communist agent, Vatican contacts who spirited him to South America and the corrupt establishments of Bolivia and Peru that helped him earn an enviable livelihood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bearding The Butcher of Lyons | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...produced since the very beginnings of the atomic age. Radiation is such a humdrum part of their daily lives that they take the red- and-white warning signs posted along Poplar Creek in stride. When area hunters bag a deer, they routinely run parts of it past a wildlife agent for radiation tests before serving it for dinner. The sight of coverall-clad workers ( chopping down "hot" trees growing in contaminated soil causes little concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: They Lied to Us | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

Working undercover for two years, Customs agents infiltrate a drug ring, then stage a Florida wedding to nab bankers who allegedly operate on both sides of the law. "Welcome to Tampa," said one agent to a suspect. "You' re under arrest." The probe was called Operation C- Chase, for the $100 bills that are the denomination of choice in drug deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Oct. 24, 1988 | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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