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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chose to sign as a free agent with the Bengals, basing his decision on the teams' recent seasons. "I decided I'd have a better chance with Cincinnati since they were coming off a bad year," he says...

Author: By Eli G. Attie, | Title: From Blocking Passes to Passing Classes | 12/11/1986 | See Source »

...possibility of future involvement in the world of sports. "I wouldn't mind getting back into ball full-time on the management side, but that's really tended to become a grubby business," he says. He adds that he is not at Harvard to become a player agent...

Author: By Eli G. Attie, | Title: From Blocking Passes to Passing Classes | 12/11/1986 | See Source »

Gorman told The Patriot Ledger of Quincy in an interview published yesterday that the club raised its initial offer "two or three times" before deciding to break off the discussions about 9 p.m. Sunday, three hours before the deadline by which Seaver, as a free agent, had to come to terms with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEAVER UNSIGNED | 12/9/1986 | See Source »

...Americans do anything in secret anymore? You are a Russian or an Israeli or an Iranian. Tomorrow you are approached by an American agent to help his cause in a secret operation. Do you accept the offer? Not unless you have a lot of life insurance and a craving for publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: When Secrecy Meets Democracy | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...arms-for-Iran turned into cash-for-the-contras scandal is just beginning to unravel. One sure consequence of that unraveling will be an endless series of disclosures -- names, dates, places, faces -- that will make it very unsafe to be an American agent. For some Americans that will mean the end of a political career. Elsewhere survival has a different meaning. In the early '80s, Israel had, then lost, contacts in the middle levels of the Iranian military. "They died out," said an Israeli official to the New York Times. "I mean that literally. Our contacts were executed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: When Secrecy Meets Democracy | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

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