Word: agent
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...competes with its former children, some of the regional operating companies, a.k.a. the Baby Bells, are no longer sharing their database of phone numbers with Ma Bell. The upshot is that AT&T has assembled replacement services consisting of one subcontractor, Excell Agent Services in Phoenix, Ariz.; two of its own regional centers; and a few stray agreements with Baby Bells. Thus when you're in, say, Oregon calling to find a Florida number, your long-distance information operator is now likely to be in Phoenix; Scranton, Pa.; or Augusta, Ga. (MCI and Sprint still have agreements with the Bells...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: FBI agent Jerry Campane told the Senate campaign finance panel that Charlie Trie, a restaurant owner in Arkansas, had dipped into a $905,000 payment from a business partner in Asia known as Mr. Wu to reimburse himself for a $220,000 donation he made to the DNC, and to pay back other associates who made similar contributions. Since the money originated from a foreign source and disguised the name of the real contributor, the contributions may have been illegal. Did the money come from the Chinese government? Hard to say, since Trie and his partner have refused...
...preyed mostly on homosexuals. The bureau says it saw to it that Cunanan was featured four times on America's Most Wanted, and followed up thousands of leads. "We've reached out to every gay community in the nation that we can identify," says Kevin Rickett, an FBI agent with the Minnesota Fugitive Task Force, which launched the manhunt...
...flown on the eponymous aircraft, Air Force One seems a bit less authentic than Attack of the Crab Monsters. To their credit, the filmmakers do not pretend that terrorists masquerading as Russian cameramen could simply stroll onto the President's plane; the script calls for a rogue Secret Service agent to give them their security clearances. Fine--except that even the mechanics on Air Force One work on a buddy system, one keeping tabs on the other. So presumably you need at least two rogue agents. On the plane itself, there are dozens of agents and members...
...petition demanding that city pay up on its promise of $45,000, though Police Chief Richard Barreto said his department wants to be sure that Carreira did not have any way of knowing that Cunanan was there before he reported seeing him. Paul Philip, the FBI's agent in charge in Miami, feels Carreira deserves his agency's $10,000 reward. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is still holding back his $10,000 because Cunanan was not arrested or convicted, the usual condition of such rewards. Miami may be the next to pay up, given Monday's release...