Word: agent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Saks in just six weeks. Instead he leads me behind a boudoir-pink wall to a pretty blond in a matching pink uniform. She's wrapping a stack of saucy lingerie items for two women who are entirely veiled, including burqas. When they leave, Lisa Hastings, the manager of Agent Provocateur, explains that they are a mother and daughter shopping for the daughter's wedding lingerie, adding that she sells plenty of "playful" underwear to women wearing abayas. The shop's best-selling item? "The jeweled whip," Hastings says. "We can hardly keep them in stock...
...captured him fleeing the battle in Tora Bora in Afghanistan in December 2001. The month before 9/11, he tried to enter the U.S. through Orlando, Fla.--while 9/11 leader Mohamed Atta waited for him in the airport parking lot--but was deported after he became evasive with an immigration agent. The Pentagon contends that over time al-Qahtani, known as Detainee 063, proved an invaluable source, identifying al-Qaeda financial contacts in several Arab countries, describing meetings with the organization's top leadership and fingering at least 30 other Guantánamo detainees as bodyguards of Osama bin Laden...
Just in case HOWARD STERN was running out of villains to decry on the air, his old boss, CBS CEO LES MOONVES, has stepped in to help. CBS Radio filed a fraud and breach-of- contract lawsuit seeking more than $200 million from the radio host, his agent and his new employer, Sirius Satellite Radio. The suit says Stern spent his last 14 months at CBS talking up Sirius and hiding a deal to earn stock for boosting his new company's subscriber numbers. Stern calls the suit a "personal vendetta." On the upside, it will give him months...
David R. Gergen, a Kennedy School professor who said he has spoken with Corporation members in recent months, said he believes the Corporation will turn once again to an “agent of change...
...first got a call Saturday around 5:30 p.m. from Capt. Charles Kirk about a possible hunting accident on the Armstrong ranch. He told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times newspaper he was barbecuing with his family when he was reached. Then, about 10 minutes later, a Secret Service agent called the sheriff at home to officially notify them of the accident and the involvement of Cheney. Kirk, meanwhile, had been rebuffed at the Armstrong gate by a Border Patrol agent who knew nothing about the accident. Salinas says in his report he decided not to go immediately to the ranch...