Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After her divorce, she was involved with the agent Leland Hayward and Howard Hughes, but it was Tracy "who was on to her," who gave up nothing for her and who consequently won her devotion. She stopped doing everything that irked him, even altered "qualities which I personally valued. It did not matter. I changed them." Despite making it safe for women to wear pants, she is not a have-it-all feminist on the subject of children and career. "You can't do both. It's a choice. If you want a career, which I did, why bring...
...case involved Dr. Humberto Alvarez-Machain, a gynecologist who two years ago was dragged from his Guadalajara office by Mexican bounty hunters, flown to El Paso and handed over to agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Alvarez-Machain still awaits trial in Los Angeles on federal charges of conspiring to torture and kill dea agent Enrique Camarena, kidnapped and murdered in Guadalajara in 1985. The doctor allegedly injected Camarena with lidocaine, which kept his heart going to prolong his torture and interrogation by Mexican officials and drug kingpins...
...secret activities seems undeniable. He put up the money for some of Oliver North's efforts to buy the freedom of American hostages in the Middle East (and lost at least $300,000 that was taken by middlemen who disappeared). In 1981 Perot agreed to a suggestion by agents of the U.S. Customs Service that he finance a drug sting in the Caribbean. The idea was to set up a landing strip on a foreign-owned island where agents would gather information on drug-carrying flights that would be induced to put down there. Customs could not operate an undercover...
...blame this paradox largely on soaring players' salaries, which cost $24 million, or 52% of the club's revenues, last year. To make ends meet, Pittsburgh cut more than $7 million from its payroll by trading 20-game winner John Smiley and letting slugger Bobby Bonilla become a free agent...
Were that the ultimate judgment, voters would probably turn first to Clinton. Of the rationales Bush has offered for his re-election, his claim to be a change agent is laughable. But Clinton won't get his sought-after second look if Perot's savvy continues, and perhaps not even if Perot falters. The historians' favorite metaphor for Jacksonianism is the signs one still sees in the center of small towns. The arrows point to many different destinations and have but one thing in common: they all point to somewhere else. Which is what Perot represents. Since...