Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course of true love never did run smooth, but the affairs of confessed Soviet Agent Svetlana Ogorodnikova have proved particularly bumpy. Over the past two weeks, Ogorodnikova has disrupted the Los Angeles espionage trial of her former paramour, ex-FBI Agent Richard Miller, with sobbing assertions of his and her innocence. "Richard is not a traitor of his country," she told the judge in chambers, and "I am not Russian spy." Instead, she portrayed herself as a boozy, lovelorn emigre who rebounded to Miller after she was jilted by his colleague, former FBI Counterintelligence Agent John Hunt. Hunt has denied...
...Realtors predicts that new-home sales will reach 735,000 this year, up from 688,000 in 1985. But that level depends largely on interest rates remaining close to their current level. Many consumers fear that these rates are too good to last. Says George Pierce, a real estate agent for Coldwell Banker in Oak Brook, Ill.: "People are saying, 'I may never see this again. Now is the time to make my move...
Tony LaRussa's job as manager of the Chicago White Sox remained hanging by a thread yesterday after Sox management met with Billy Martin's agent, Ed Sapir, and said they would talk again today...
...shanties are "the most tangible symbol of the kind of student protest that Jim is backing" on college campuses, said Roosevelt's press agent, Mark Jurkowitz...
...Indeed, the fair has been controversial from the start. Critics charge that the $1 billion investment would have been better spent elsewhere, or perhaps not at all. Many Canadians are also alarmed because the fair is expected to run up a $225 million deficit. Says Lewis Booth, an insurance agent in Vancouver: "At the end of the fair, we'll find we're all in hock up to our ears...