Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Penny," as Hardaway is oh so inappropriately known, seems downright modest compared with Glenn Robinson, the top pick in this summer's N.B.A. draft. Robinson's agent is seeking a 13-year deal with the Milwaukee Bucks that would pay his client $100 million. Chutzpah? This is the same agent who arranged a party after the N.B.A. draft, where for a $10 fee, friends and admirers could come and celebrate Robinson's impending wealth. That's chutzpah...
...investors on opportunities such as sports. "This is about who gets a bigger share of the pie." The owners have deluded themselves into thinking the players should happily assist them in that redistribution, which violates human nature as well as labor history. Leigh Steinberg, perhaps the most powerful individual agent in professional sports, with some 150 clients under contract, agrees, "These sports are showing an incredible amount of self- destruction. This is a golden opportunity squandered. In each case, the leagues seem to have lost sight of that old proposition: the show must...
...Supreme Court today refused to hear the appeal of an Alaska rental agent who refused to rent to unmarried couples on the grounds that they were being sinful. Over the solo dissent of Justice Clarence Thomas, the court left intact an Alaska Supreme Court ruling that said the agent, Tom Swanner, violated state and local laws by refusing to rent to such couples. Swanner's appeal said these laws violated his First Amendment religious freedoms. Thomas argued that "there is surely no firm national policy against marital-status discrimination in housing decisions...
Where do baby bells go before setting out on the information superhighway? If they're Nynex, Bell Atlantic Corp. and Pacific Telesis, they fuel up in Hollywood. The three phone giants announced today that they were starting a production venture with premier agent Michael Ovitz's company, Creative Artists Agency. The goal: produce TV shows and interactive entertainment, which they can pump over their lines. It's all part of therace against cableto capitalize on the emerging information-in-a-settop-box age. Phone companies are trying to makeup for cable's huge programming advantage. "That's why they need...
...Special Agent William J. McMullin of the Boston FBI bureau refused to discuss the case yesterday...