Word: agent
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...name from a highschool friend, who she reminded of a firebird with her hair. Phoenix had ended up in Madison after winning the Miss Nude Arizona contest; she met an agent who brought her to Wisconsin. Madison is a very comfortable place to live, with a huge student population, two lakes, and an isthmus between the working class east side and the suburban west...
...work of art as collateral. Sotheby's will, however, continue to make other, secured loans. It will also continue "guaranteeing" minimum prices to sellers, a practice that many dealers and collectors charge makes the auction house in effect an interim buyer and compromises its standing as a disinterested agent...
...Journalisten-Haus, a kind of press club across the street from the train station. The speaker is editor of a youth paper for politics, culture and economic topics -- circulation 1 million. He is in his 50s, having ^ a sandwich with Reimund, 39, the press agent for the huge, state-owned Zeiss optics and microcomputer industries...
Barry, 53, was arrested at the hotel shortly after 8 p.m. as a result of an undercover operation conducted jointly by the city police department's internal affairs division and the FBI, according to a statement by U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens and Thomas DuHadway, special agent in charge of the FBI's Washington office. There was no word of additional arrests...
Noriega's relations with Washington were always ambivalent: he seemed to be a triple or quadruple agent. There appeared to be good grounds for the CIA to hire him: he was a shrewd intelligence operative, and Panama is an excellent listening post for developments throughout Central America and the Caribbean. But from early on, Noriega seemed to play Uncle Sam for a prize sucker. U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab once remarked that "occasionally, they ((Noriega & Co.)) swing some poor slob out, in effect give him away to make us feel they're cooperating." And once in a while Noriega...