Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Latrobe, Pennsylvania, headquarters near Pittsburgh in 1989. Gasior became alarmed when she discovered that a shipment of carbide metal-working tools to Baghdad -- tools that could be used to cut uranium -- might be illegal. She also learned of Kennametal sales to Matrix Churchill, Iraq's main U.S. purchasing agent, which was gathering materiel for projects like the infamous Supergun. She says she warned company officers that Kennametal was not following export regulations, and questioned other company practices. Within nine months of being hired, she was asked by her superiors to resign for being "uncooperative." Unable to find...
...blond, blue-eyed Russian "hostesses," while in Tokyo, Russian girls are the latest addition to the menu in fancy "hostess" bars. In Modena, Italy, last fall, police rounded up more than 100 women from Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and points east. Allegedly lured as dancers by a self-described theatrical agent, they were then forced "to be nice to customers or else." The agent is now awaiting trial. Even war does not halt the traffic. In Kac, a cluster of rundown farmhouses in northern Serbia, dark-haired Valenka gyrates half nude at the local bar and beckons customers upstairs...
Griffin has said he was first told he was no longer welcome to work at Harvard by Tom McCurtian, a facilities and maintenance official, because facilities and maintenance officials thought Griffin and his business agent had met with a Crimson reporter...
...said... "I'm sending you back to GBS [General Building Services] at the end of the week because you brought your business agent and some girl reporter to Adams House to talk about non-union [construction]. I was flabbergasted," Griffin said...
...Crimson did not have such a meeting with Griffin and the Local 40 business agent, Mark L. Ehrlich. A female reporter did, however, meet with Ehrlich and two other members of the union in April at an eatery near Adams House...