Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Trent Lott's association with a hate group is proved, his image as a genial, even "gracious" politician will probably not suffer much damage, at least not in the South. The early, Klan membership of Sen. Robert, Byrd (D, W.Va.) has not hurt his career. The Sovereignty Commission agent who is indirectly responsible for the murder of the three civil rights activists in 1964 is now a staff member for Rep. Mike Parker, another Mississippi Republican. Even the two old and grizzled, foes of racial equality, Jesse Helms (R, N.C.) and Strom Thurmond (R, S.C.), continue to infest the Senate...
...Graduate students at Yale voted overwhelmingly for GESO to represent them as a collective bargaining agent--in other words, they wanted a ,union," Pasachoff said...
...After spending 14 hours over the past three days poring over Bruno Magli photos and DNA evidence, Fujisaki has told jurors to start their deliberations again from scratch. Earlier speculation had been that Fujisaki would dismiss members over a letter sent to two jurors' homes that recommended an entertainment agent's services, but TIME's Elaine Lafferty reports the two incidents were not linked. The letter, written by Brenda Moran and Gina Rosborough, two jurors who served at the criminal trial, congratulates the new jurors on making it through a "trying experience" and extends a cosy invitation to discuss their...
...bronze medalist in pairs skating who has choreographed Baiul a number of times, said, "Watching her recently, I've been concerned that her lack of discipline would catch up with her. Her head has been turned by so many things since she's come to America." Says her Americanizing agent Carlisle: "This is an unfortunate slip in the process...
...baseball's reserve clause, which prohibited players from choosing the teams they played for, that brought free-agency to baseball and changed the game forever. Flood, traded to the Philadelphia Phillies after the 1969 season, refused to report, instead applying to Bowie Kuhn to be declared a free agent. He was denied. Claiming that baseball had violated anti-trust laws, Flood filed a lawsuit that reached all the way to the Supreme Court, which finally ruled against him in 1972. The legal battle cost Flood the 1970 season, and ultimately his career. But in 1975, an arbitrator granted free agency...