Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, there is no reason why the Council should try to take on the characteristics of a sovereign governmental body. It should work altruistically as an agent for students' wishes, not as a breeding ground for future Washington cocktail party cannon fodder. Hopefully, no more of these substanceless, money-wasting ads will appear. Council members spend too much time worrying about their political images, and not enough time finding out what students really want...
Unfortunately, Viola's taken an agent. But the Crimson (9-11, 5-3) is ready to take on the defending Ivy League champs without...
...tactics of the "Sour Grapes contingent" runs antithetical to the objectives of undergraduate government. Exclusive meetings (the attendees of which are determined on the basis of gender) perpetuates divisiveness within the Council, thereby paralyzing its efforts to provide a coherent voice and unifying agent for the student body...
...five- time batting champion Wade Boggs in a Yankee uniform. For 11 seasons, Boggs was as much a part of the Boston Red Sox as the fabled Green Monster wall in Fenway Park's left field. Now he had changed to pinstripes (part of the off- season free-agent frenzy in which 91 veteran players shifted teams), and it troubled an old-school ballplayer like Ryan. "It's just a sign of the times," he said. "We grew up expecting a major-league team to protect its nucleus and be pretty much the same from year to year...
...head count inside the compound actually rose by one on Wednesday, when Louis Anthony Alaniz, a 24-year-old Houston man described by his mother as a religious fanatic, broke through the ring of agents and sprinted to the Davidians' door. Suspecting at first that he was an FBI double agent, members of the sect admitted him warily, but kept him on after he listened to one of Koresh's biblical harangues...