Word: agent
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...poisoning attempt by his political rivals in September. The soft-spoken Yushchenko is very much an International Monetary Fund kind of man, committed to liberalizing the state-run economy. The fact that his wife is American has even led his enemies to accuse him of being a Western agent. The son of teachers from the agricultural corner of northeastern Ukraine, Yushchenko spent the early part of his career as a rural accountant and state banking bureaucrat. But he came to prominence in 1993 as head of Ukraine's new Central Bank, where he oversaw the introduction of the national currency...
...Australia, most young children with cancer are treated in pediatric hospitals (invariably teaching hospitals linked to a university) and most of these kids are enrolled in trials. The idea of trials as bold experiments with mysterious drugs is wrong. Often there's no new agent involved. Oncologists have been treating all with the same eight drugs for more than 20 years; the improved cure rate among children results from new combinations and dosages proven in trials to work. Supple is part of a five-year trial involving infants and children under 17, in which most participants receive standard best treatment...
...told my agent he wanted to talk to me, and I thought my agent was jiving. But I called back, and he said, "I love that you are you, and I want to know you." I told him to meet me at my house for lunch the next day. Two hours later, I came downstairs and found him singing "Be sure it's true when you say 'I love you'" while playing my piano...
...ready to hang it up,” he says. “I’ll probably get an agent...
...After learning that Bob Dylan was playing the last show of a fall tour in Amherst on Nov. 20, we approached his agent with the idea of performing a show at Harvard the following night,” he says...