Word: agent
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...Ronaldo, the driving force of a United team that finished last season as champions of both England and Europe, it's a seller's market. The Manchester club have the Portuguese star on contract for four more years (after which, if he's not sold, he becomes a free agent) at a weekly wage of $240,000. Real Madrid wants to pay $120 million (of which Ronaldo would keep $12 million, the rest going into the coffers of Manchester United) to sign him - and to persuade the player to make the deal, it will raise his salary...
...theory about the cause of ALS is that motor nerves die after exposure to a toxic compound released by other nerve cells in the spinal cord. The Harvard and Columbia groups are hoping to test that idea in the lab: if the cells in culture release the same agent, then finding drug compounds that block the damaging effects of the toxin could preserve neurons and hold off the paralyzing effects of the disease...
...days by some other hot possibility - the question helps clarify the next few weeks: Does Obama counterbalance his relative inexperience in general, and in foreign policy and defense matters in particular, and go with a trusted old-timer or pick a fresh face, someone who can pose as an agent of change, a relative newcomer just like himself...
...female agent has been murdered, and her colleague Dakota Whitney (Amanda Peet) has enlisted Mulder and Scully to help her find the killer. One clue comes from visions of the murder claimed by Father Joe (Billy Connolly), a Catholic priest who had been convicted of sexually abusing dozens of altar boys decades before. In line with their old TV selves, Mulder is sympathetic to the man's assertions, Skully skeptical. "Do you believe him?" an agent (rapper Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner) dismissively asks Mulder, who replies, "Let's say I wanna believe...
...News of the World's defense crumbled when Woman E, a prostitute married to an agent of MI5, Britain's domestic investigation service, failed to show up in court. Her lawyer cited her "emotional and mental state." She had filmed the 5-hr. orgy with a secret camera and had been interviewed for an article titled "Exclusive: Mosley Hooker Tells All: My Nazi Orgy With F1 Boss." She had been expected to testify that Mosley specifically asked the women to facilitate a Nazi-themed sex romp. The other four prostitutes, one of whom is a Ph.D. candidate, all denied that...