Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Bruins have signed free-agent left wing Kevin Stevens to a reported $1 million a year contract for five years...
Michael Weiner, assistant general counsel of the union, said he had spoken to Nixon and his agent Joe Sroba earlier in the day. Weiner said a decision on filing a grievance would probably be made within 24 hours...
Noble views herself as a free agent of positive change. She wants to serve on the council for as long as it takes to accomplish her agenda, and then get out, as she did as a legislator. Lifetime professional politics, she says, "makes you funny in the head." She does not want to lose the disattached perspective that allows her to see the quirks and flaws in progressive Cambridge that she says the "shadow of Harvard and MIT" tends to obscure...
...first day of the coup, TIME Moscow correspondent James Carney got an unmistakable indication of the KGB's ambivalence about the putsch. As he stood interviewing soldiers outside the Moscow Hotel, he was approached by a casually dressed man in his 30s who introduced himself as KGB agent Alexander Maisenko and produced the proper red identification card to prove it. "Not all of my colleagues in the KGB think that what is happening is a good thing," he said. "Putting the army in the streets against the people is wrong...
GRAPEFRUIT. Researchers think pectin, the gelling agent found in the peel and white membrane that surround citrus pulp, could also lower cholesterol levels. After 60 days of eating pectin, pigs at the University of Florida showed a marked reduction in blood fat. Preliminary studies indicate that pectin may be useful in treating clogged arteries. The amount of citrus probably needed to produce any results is dauntingly high: the equivalent of two or three grapefruit...