Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their congregations have been subjected to harsh interrogation, lie-detector tests and harassment at their homes and jobs. In one instance, a 17-year-old female member of the Rev. Algie Jarrett's Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Bolivar, Tennessee, was taken out of a classroom by an FBI agent and questioned so roughly that she broke down in tears. Says Jarrett: "He tried to make her say something that wasn't true...
Many of us have also been lawyers, architects, scientists, academics, directors of Fortune 500 companies, professional fund raisers, doctors, nurses, State Department employees, psychotherapists, teachers, bookstore owners, artists, musicians, editors, teachers, a minister, a literary agent, poets (one Pulitzer Prize winner), essayists, fiction writers, biographers and authors of scientific and medical articles. One classmate is an investment adviser; another advises in alternative dispute resolution; a third is an adviser on urban development. This list by no means includes all our jobs over the years...
With that, the sting was on. According to the 34-page criminal complaint filed in San Francisco's U.S. District Court last week, Hipple helped Ku smuggle in 20,000 machine-gun stands. Ku then told the agent to fax his weapons wish list to Ku's secretary, using code words: "apples" for automatic weapons; "Alpha Kings" for AK-47s; "poppers" for grenades. Later a Florida ATF agent was introduced to Ku as an arms dealer interested in machine guns. Eventually the undercover team negotiated an order for 2,000 AK-47s. They paid Ku and his associates...
...concerned about plans by companies like Spring Street Brewing, which launched the first ever initial public offering on the Internet earlier this year. The New York City-based beer company was briefly forced by the Securities and Exchange Commission to suspend trading until it hired a bank or escrow agent to handle investor money. The offering of nearly 900,000 shares at $1.85 a share was such a smashing success that Spring Street wants to start an in-house brokerage to take other companies public and trade their stocks exclusively on the Internet...
...figure is one thing, but something seems to be wrong with CLAUDIA SCHIFFER's figures--either that, or nasty Australians are lying about her. When the supermodel was visiting the country last month to see fiance David Copperfield perform, local current-affairs show Witness sought an interview. Her Australian agent asked holiday rates: $30,000 for one hour. That's Witness's story. Ken Smith, proprietor of Schiffer's Australian agency, dismisses it as a "pie-in-the-sky rumor." So no interview--but Melbourne businessman Jean Mazloun says he struck a $280,000 deal with Schiffer's New York...