Word: agent
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...report states baldly that airport security was still "seriously flawed" and "not adequate" at the nation's riskiest airports, which include New York City's John F. Kennedy. While the FAA had rated the four airports visited by its inspectors as "good to very good," undercover agents from the inspector general's office reached dramatically different conclusions. In 15 out of 20 attempts to gain entry to supposedly secure areas, agents had little trouble: they got into aircraft-parking areas, baggage areas, and one agent managed to slip an unarmed hand grenade through a metal detector...
...exactly what their costs will be over the next few years. For instance, the players get 48% of the league's basketball-related income, and each team has a salary cap of $24.3 million. (There's one exception: a team can spend any amount to keep its own free-agent players.) So a team that brings in $50 million, an average figure, has plenty of money left after labor costs. Of course, "labor costs" doesn't quite describe the exquisite athleticism of Michael Jordan sinking a fallaway jumper with defenders dangling from him like mismatched earrings...
...nickname is El Gordo, the Fat Man, and he is both agent and metaphor. Joe Cubas, 35, a contractor from Miami, has orchestrated five defections from Cuba's national baseball team, most recently on July 9, when ace pitcher Rolando Arrojo slipped into Cubas' car, leaving his team's exhibition tour. That incident, coupled with the defections in late June at the Mexican border of Cuban boxers Joel Casamayor and Ramon Garbey, have led to widespread speculation that the most exciting event at the Atlanta Olympics will be the long jump--from Cuba...
...that Cubas is representing the boxers. But for the Cuban baseball players, he has come to stand for freedom and the major leagues--and millions of U.S. dollars. After he took two defecting pitchers, Osvaldo Fernandez and Livan Hernandez, to the Dominican Republic last winter to establish their free-agent status, they signed very sweet deals, with the San Francisco Giants and Florida Marlins respectively. Says Cubas: "The money has less to do with their defecting than their desire for freedom or their wish to play at the highest level of competition...
...example of the movie's comic sensibility lives and breathes in the character of Special Agent Milton Dammers, that crazy FBI agent. You see, the funny thing about Dammers is that he is knowledgeable about the occult--and also pretty strange himself! That means he hides behind doors a lot and, for no discernible reason, cannot stand when women yell at him. Ultimately, we find out he has scars all over his chest and (gasp!) perhaps might not be as good-hearted as we thought...