Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Herbert Romerstein, former minority chief investigator of the House Internal Security Committee (which used to be HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee), and the late Eric Breindel. The book will make sensational charges, among them Romerstein's claim that the radical journalist I.F. Stone was a paid Soviet agent...
NAME: Lucianne ("Do not call me Rube") Goldberg OCCUPATION: cranky book agent AGE: 63 BEST PUNCH: Mindful of Moore's hatred of tabloids, Goldberg deflected the camera's view by posting large signs over both her windows reading "I Love the National Enquirer...
...hundreds of hogs. Her boss told her to. She merely complied and does not feel guilty, because, in the words of psychologist Stanley Milgram, "the person entering an authority system no longer views himself as acting out of his own purposes but rather comes to see himself as an agent for executing the wishes of another person...
...process began in mid-April, when Hill signed a player-agent contract with the Netherlands-based Courtside firm, where he is represented by Jan Lugtenburg. In order to secure that contract, Hill had to compile a package including game footage of himself and a tally of statistics and career highlights...
...glad it's been such a fluid process," Hill said. "Once I signed the player-agent contract, that gave the agency the ability to shop the market, and this team in Rotterdam popped up pretty quickly. The only effort I had to put out was marketing myself to the agency...