Word: agent
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...sponsors away. Kerrigan, meanwhile, already enjoys lucrative endorsement contracts with six companies, including Reebok and Campbell's soup. The events of the past week have made Kerrigan even more valuable. "People are calling from all over the country with offers for television and book deals," says Jerry Solomon, her agent. If Kerrigan can find the resources to overcome her legendary skittishness to do well at the Olympics, she might earn more than $10 million in contracts. She doesn't even have to win gold...
Further, records and interviews with Chris Wade, the real estate agent who sold the lots for the Clintons and McDougals and ended up buying much of the , land from them, indicate that Whitewater over the years took in around $270,250. Wade claims that Whitewater spent $40,000 on improvements like roads, and carrying costs on the land may have eaten up much of the rest. But it is hard to see how the Clintons' half-share could have resulted in a loss of anything like $69,000. McDougal has told the Associated Press that he thought their cash investment...
...face betrays the strain of keeping his family afloat, Ellen still haunts him daily with the words, "You gotta do better." And when Gilbert makes mistakes, or acts a little selfish, the whole town seems to echo her. He is even invited into the office of an insurance agent, only to be told, "What if something should happen to you? Stop thinking about yourself--think about them...
...hardest part of all these efforts is getting the right genes into the cells that need them. Generally, the genes must be carried by some sort of delivery vehicle, which scientists call a vector. For its vector, Anderson's team used an infectious agent known as a retrovirus -- a specialized virus containing RNA (a single-strand cousin of DNA) that has a knack for finding its way to a cell's genome and making itself at home. Retroviruses can be dangerous (HIV is the most notorious), but scientists have ways of altering them so that they don't cause disease...
...Third agent: "He doesn't still get protection, does...