Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Hyman, the council lost $1,000 when plans to bring the Mighty Mighty Bosstones failed to materialize. Part of Coffey's agreement with the agent stipulated that the agent, Eric Henning, would be paid regardless of whether he could secure the band...
Being the diligent reporter that I am, I call his agent, ready with a list of questions: Did Mr. Salinger authorize the publication of a new book? Do you uncover illegal editions frequently? Does Mr. Salinger want you to prosecute those who pirate his works? Does the public perhaps have a right to read previously-published stories...
When a young women answers the phone I am suddenly and unexpectedly nervous. I ask to speak to Mr. Salinger's agent and the words sound ridiculous coming out of my mouth. Who the hell am I to speak to such people? After the young woman grills me very aggressively as to why I'm calling, she makes the remarkable decision to hand me over to Phyllis Westberg, J.D. Salinger's agent (J.D. Salinger's agent!), and now I'm mumbling and stuttering as if I were talking to the man himself...
Based on the conditions under which the contract was approved, some of the disgruntled workers from Local 254 have filed a grievance earlier this month with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), asking them it nullify the contract. They are charging that Cathy Conway, their business agent, represented the union in bad faith...
...informed George Baker that the sign had directed us to call the security office, which then admitted us. He responded by demanding to know who had actually unlocked the door, apparently assuming that I possessed extra-sensory powers which allowed me to divine the name of the unseen security agent to whom we had spoken on the phone for only a few seconds...