Word: agent
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...announced that he wanted Jackson on his squad, but Steinbrenner is no longer allowed to speak for the team, and Yankees general manager Gene Michael said the "risk is just too great" to hire Jackson. At week's end, when no team had claimed him, Jackson became a free agent...
...basic principle behind such human tests has changed little since the 19th century. Several thousand people at high risk for the disease will be inoculated with the experimental agent, most likely an altered version of the AIDS virus (HIV) or some portion of it. The vaccine should not be dangerous enough to cause the disease, but enough like HIV to confer immunity by triggering the production of antibodies and other virus-fighting components of the immune system. The subjects in the trial will be carefully monitored to see if they have a better record of avoiding infection than groups...
...jumped from 31% four weeks ago to 54% last week. More dramatically, 44% of those polled said last week they expect economic conditions to get better in the coming year, while 15% expect them to become worse; those proportions have almost exactly reversed since January (see chart). Real estate agent Christine Gainey-Colombo was so discouraged by the industry slump in northern New Jersey that just a few months ago she was seriously considering giving up and returning to her former career as a nurse. Says she: "Last year you couldn't give a house away, but now the change...
ReRe Avegno, a real estate agent in Metairie, a New Orleans suburb, remembers exactly when her phone started ringing off the hook: a few days into the allied air campaign, when it became clear that the U.S.-led forces in the gulf had gained the upper hand. As long as the possibility existed of a protracted and ruinously expensive war, many Americans were frozen in an anxious stasis in which they were delaying major financial decisions. Says John Tuccillo, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors: "With the flush of victory, people are going out looking for houses." Some...
Eager shoppers in some regions are creating a buying fever that feeds on itself. Says Jon Posner, a real estate agent in Westchester County, north of New York City: "There is an extraordinary amount of pent-up demand, and buyers have generally said, 'It may go lower, but I'm not going to wait and see.' Some tell me that it's not important to get the absolute bottom price. It's like shopping for clothes. You see a suit you like, and you think the price may drop further, but on the other hand, it may get sold before...