Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sting began in October 1985 with an FBI agent posing as a supplier of fencing, road signs and other steel products. He apparently had no difficulty distributing $40,000 in bribes to various officials. Only one of the 106 payoffs proffered was rejected, and that was because the amount was deemed too paltry. Said U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani: "Compared to other states, New York is a much friendlier place to corrupt politicians, crooked businessmen and organized criminals...
However, Joseph Jackson, the assistant agent in charge of the FBI's Michigan's operations, described the agency's presence as routine and said "there's absolutely no indication of anything other than an accident...
...Thatcher government insists that it has a moral duty to try to prevent Wright from setting a dangerous precedent. "It has nothing to do with freedom of speech," says a senior official, "but everything to do with the notion that if you're a secret agent, you bloody well stay secret." Still, it is one thing to stop an agent from violating his vow of secrecy and quite another to try to bar reporting about allegations that are now public. "To fail to distinguish between Mr. Wright's obligations to the government and the press's right to publish seems...
...wilt during an overlong sequence set in the Afghan desert, when the movie turns Ishtary. But Glen, Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson (Broccoli's stepson, who serves as co- screenwriter and co-producer) have wrapped a few nifty surprises in the security blanket of genre familiarity. The gasbag KGB agent is smuggled out of Czechoslovakia through the Trans-Siberian natural gas pipeline. A professional killer and a British guard stage the best kitchen fight since the gremlins got microwaved. The requisite ski chase sends Dalton and D'Abo bobsledding down the slopes in her cello case. Throughout, the film forfeits...
...appropriated for individual use. Sacrifices, on the other hand, are encouraged and often occur even with no runners on base. Instead of left-, center- and rightfielders, the lapta outfield features two leftfielders followed around by a fleet fellow traveler, or occasionally a British free agent eager to play ball with the Russians...