Word: agent
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...individual, but about a great effort being undertaken to unify different types of employees for the same cause of all of us gaining a new right to vote on all things our employer may offer, line for line, rather than our deferring that right to representatives and a business agent from what has been a less-than-forthright union, as it was in the past...
From there Nicholson flew on to Bangkok for some time off with the Thai woman he hoped to marry, before heading back to Washington. Meanwhile, the FBI continued the investigation it had begun in January. Agents searched Nicholson's Virginia town house and Chevy van, dredged his computer hard drive, checked his accounts and finally used a hidden camera to videotape him as he photographed documents under his desk. On Nov. 16, the day before his 46th birthday, Nicholson was at Dulles International Airport in Washington, planning to board a flight for New York and from there a connection...
...else, that he was a spy. In the expatriate community, he made little impression except as a genial neighbor and a leader of the Eagle Scout troop that included son Jeremiah. During Nicholson's two years in Kuala Lumpur, one of the main jobs for American intelligence agents was tracking leads in the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City. The suspected mastermind of the bombing, Ramzi Yousef, had passed through Malaysia. While in Kuala Lumpur, Nicholson had got agency permission to meet with a Russian agent by telling his CIA superiors he thought he could...
...family. The caveat carried a particularly harsh edge as Fujisaki was forced just two hours before to remove a female juror for allegedly attempting to "contact" an attorney involved in the case. In a scene redolent of the Simpson murder trial, the juror, Ann-Marie Jamison, hired an agent and was booked on a national morning talk show soon after the dismissal. The juror picked to replace Jamison is a 20-year-old white female. The change leaves the jury's ethnic makeup unchanged with nine whites, one black, one Hispanic and one person of a black and Asian background...
...imagine attempting "a period movie for that kind of dough on the water with Jim." What Cameron promises to deliver, of course, is the Titanic as no one has seen it. The director of Aliens, both Terminators and The Abyss, Cameron has "vast cinematic appetites," as an agent puts it, consistently delivering event films with dazzling effects. Nevertheless, Hollywood insiders can't fathom how Fox and Paramount--which are splitting the cost--will make money. Indeed, soon after shooting began, Paramount became spooked by the budget and demanded that Fox limit its exposure. Facing a possible court fight, Fox agreed...