Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heroes was David Hall, an agent who went undercover for nearly ten years in the swamps and bayous of the South. Hall would get to know the locals and start buying alligator hides from traders; at one point, he operated a tanning factory for more than a year. "The big traders would bring their skins to me in 18-wheel trucks," says Hall, "and we'd bust them on the spot. I know the real Crocodile Dundees, and I've arrested about half of them...
Born in Pittsburgh in 1927, the only child of a steel company purchasing agent and a schoolteacher mother, Bork originally intended to follow in Ernest Hemingway's footsteps by working for newspapers and then writing fiction. A poet-professor at the University of Chicago steered him to the law. At Chicago's law school, free-market economists like Aaron Director inspired his transition from liberal to conservative...
...weak voice was just above a whisper. "We need help. Can you please help us?" Border Patrol Agent Stanley Saathoff turned a crank to unlock the door of a red Missouri Pacific boxcar sitting on a siding in the small town of Sierra Blanca, 90 miles southeast of El Paso. A naked young man threw himself into the startled agent's arms. "You've been sent from heaven," the man moaned...
...until 7 a.m. on Thursday that Agent Saathoff heard the faint plea for help from Tostado. The coyote was believed to have fled back to Mexico. William Harrington, assistant chief of the El Paso Border Patrol, conceded that "we may never get our hands on him." The closest Harrington may come is the coyote's two confederates, whose sordid business led them to death in the boxcar that became a coffin...
...power of Government to intrude on the individual was acknowledged in the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. But the bureaucracies, technologies -- and social problems -- of the late 20th century make the issue of privacy considerably more complex and important. Government is not the only intrusive agent. Says Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller: "Whether you are talking about computer data banks or AIDS testing or drug testing or surveillance, the notion that the only threat to the individual in our society comes from the nation-state is nuts. The primary threat to individual privacy in this country comes...