Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only hours before the deadly blast. Miltiades went back to his photos and found a rear shot of a white man in khaki shorts wearing a knapsack that looked like the one the FBI said had contained the bomb. He called the FBI's hotline, and within minutes an agent was at his door to whisk the picture away for expert analysis...
...reward and presenting an unusual televised show reviewing the main evidence. At an Atlanta press conference, deputy director Weldon Kennedy for the first time played a tape recording of the 7-sec. 911 call that warned of the bombing and asked anyone recognizing the voice to come forward. An agent modeled a replica of a military-style backpack reconstructed from fragments found at the scene. And the agency announced a toll-free hotline for information on the case. The FBI says it has already received more than 2,500 calls, over 1,000 of them promising photos or videos...
...detected sarin and mustard gas on three occasions in the war's opening days. Chemical-weapons alarms sounded in U.S., British and French units at the same time. Tuite's correlation of the detections and of satellite weather photographs taken at the time suggests that the tons of nerve agent atomized in the allied strikes rose in a huge thermal plume that became stuck behind a stationary weather front. He argues that this invisible cloud drifted south over the entire theater, gently sprinkling the soldiers with a poisonous rain. The Pentagon has disputed his theory, arguing any fallout...
Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) knows that. He is a hot agent for Sports Management International--quick, glib and not given to deep thoughts. Still, one night at a corporate retreat, he drafts a manifesto--"The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business"--distributes it to his colleagues, receives a round of hypocritical applause and then gets fired. Thus is Jerry Maguire the film set in motion. Maguire leaves S.M.I. with one client, an undervalued wide receiver named Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), and an accountant named Dorothy Boyd (the gently winsome Renee Zellweger...
This summer, he criticized a compromise that PBHA and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III engineered in which the executive agent of PBHA reports to both the assistant dean of public service and PBHA's governing board rather than solely to the governing board...