Word: agente
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...been hiding out ever since, surrounded by ten bodyguards, moving from house to house and sending the Alliance and CIA on occasional high speed chases across the desert around Mazar. "He only drinks bottled Pepsi from the shops and lives almost entirely on cakes and bread." says one Alliance agent. "If he eats with a family in their home, he always swaps his plate with the one given to the head of the house. He only moves at night, and he has a bag of dollars in his car to buy his safety. His guards are always on alert. Some...
...Unofficial adulthood is three months away and counting, and I still have no idea where I want to end up. Trying to put together a capital-C Career is so daunting a prospect that I was willing to wait in line for two hours with a chirpy talent agent on one side of me and a nerve-wracking two minutes of camera time on the other...
...have a prescription, written by one of the kindly docs employed by the offshore pharmacies. They asked you a few questions when you logged on, and dashed off a cyber "scrip" on the spot. Does that make your case any stronger, if, say, a customs agent opens your package of opiates en route from Mexico? Maybe, says Palumbo, and maybe not. "The Controlled Substance Act in the U.S. says a prescription must be written for a legitimate medical purpose, but the feds generally don't go after patients ordering drugs for themselves." Of course, he adds, if you're caught...
People who make a living taking bombs apart don't scare easily. But the FBI laboratory experts who dissected Richard Reid's black suede sneakers were horrified by what they found in the soles: bombs that were, as one agent says, "the first of their kind and extraordinarily well concealed...
...last winter, before they had won a world championship or appeared on a single box of Cheerios, Jamie Sale and David Pelletier went to Toronto to meet with American sports agent Craig Fenech. He took one look at the pair--his dimpled, boy-band looks, her glossy brown eyes--and said, "I'm going to make you guys household names." He had yet even to see them...