Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three-dozen- plus characters. Quirky scenes and dialogue have entered TV's collective memory bank, like Lucy's spread of doughnuts for Sheriff Truman and his deputies: "A policeman's dream." At George Washington University, students launched Thursday-night pie-eating rituals: everybody digs in as soon as FBI agent Cooper bites into a slice of cherry or huckleberry. Fans are trading theories about Laura's killer (the Log Lady? the sheriff?), while a European video version of the pilot identifies the killer as a drifter named Robert. Don't be so sure, say the show's creators...
...regulators or new banks holding the bad notes need to know whether the assets are sizable enough to pursue. "These are world-class con men who were just as sophisticated in hiding their money as they were in committing their fraud," says Pankau, a onetime Internal Revenue Service agent and a trained accountant...
...looked forward to clinking glasses with Mark Kovner when he stopped by later in the day: mineral water in our glasses, vodka in his. While we were taking our 1 o'clock walk on the terrace, we caught sight of a man inside our apartment -- a KGB agent whose face was familiar. We hurried in from the terrace and saw that eight people had invaded the living room and entry hall. At least some, if not all, were from the KGB. Most were wearing white coats. Lusia said, "They've come to kill...
...seven years in a labor camp and five of internal exile for anti-Soviet activities. He suffered extremely harsh treatment. At the end of Orlov's trial, a scuffle broke out when his friends were barred from entering the courtroom to hear the verdict. I hit one KGB agent; Lusia, receiving a sharp blow to the neck from another, smacked him back, but as she was being shoved into a police car, she accidentally punched the local police chief. She said later, "I was right to hit the KGB agent and don't regret it, but I struck the police...
Some smugglers actually capitalize on specific IRCA programs. Max Dulay, a travel agent in Manila, earned $3 million bringing 300 to 400 Filipinos into the U.S. over a two-year period ending with his arrest in 1988. Dulay cashed in on the Special Agricultural Workers program, which gave legal status to farm workers who could claim at least 90 days of employment in the U.S. prior to 1986. Dulay used fake passports to bring small groups of Filipinos to Los Angeles (and sometimes to New York City and Chicago). He then transported them to a farm in central California...