Word: agente
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Things were not much better at the CIA. In a devastating chronology, Bamford reports that even as late as 2000, the agency was stuck in an old cold war way of doing things--training its agents, recruiting spies overseas and keeping headquarters happy. One agent explains that CIA recruiting overseas was about as rigorous as going to an opening-night mixer at a Las Vegas convention: American agents overseas sometimes competed with one another to see who could collect the most business cards at official receptions in foreign capitals. Then they would return to their embassy to determine the night...
...January 2000 the head of Alec station told his bosses he still had the two men under surveillance when in fact he had lost them in Bangkok. That bureaucratic chore completed, Alec station then dropped its chase altogether. It would be more than a year before a conscientious FBI agent assigned to the CIA re-examined the evidence and realized how badly the agency had blundered. The two names were finally given to the State Department...
Michael Housewert isn't your typical IRA investor. Four years ago, the real estate agent at Charde Group Inc. used $195,000 of the funds in his individual retirement account to purchase a piece of undeveloped land along a sun-washed canal on Marco Island, Fla. He sold the property two months ago for more than three times that amount, tucking a $500,000 profit back into...
...example, according to Hankins, McCormick and others have recently sought to determine how many meters the black rat, Ratus ratus—supposedly the main agent of the plague—could travel in a year. It turns out the rat can travel 200 meters a year, which suggests that the rat had to have been ship-born for the plague to have spread as fast as it did, according to Hankins...
...Pfizer, researchers have stumbled upon an agent that curbs the brain's attraction to fatty foods--but so far, only in mice. More studies will show if the same effect occurs in people...