Word: agente
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...matter how many times tearful widows accuse him of protecting the airlines, Feinberg does not blush. A lawyer with decades of experience in the messy art of compromise (Feinberg was special master for the $180 million distributed to veterans exposed to Agent Orange), he is accustomed to rage. "On Tuesday I get whacked for this or that in New Jersey. The next day it's New York. It goes with the job." But he rejects the theory that greed is a factor. "People have had a loved one wrenched from them suddenly, without warning, and we are only five months...
...earn money to help her widow mother buy their rented house. A friend approached her in a market near her house in Rangoon, she says, and asked simply whether she wanted to make money in Thailand. She jumped at the chance. Tip, like Pim, was recruited by an agent but insists her mother thought she was going to be cleaning houses. Both girls say they can never tell their families they are prostitutes. They would be too ashamed...
...years ago Yousuf Sadiq, then eight years old, and his brother Suleman, 7, were sold by their father for the sporting fun of a wealthy Gulf sheik. An agent who scours the poor villages and nomad camps of southern Pakistan bought the diminutive brothers to race camels in the United Arab Emirates. They fit the agents' ideal: aged between five and eight and weighing less than 17 kilos apiece...
What exactly is slavery? does it have to last a lifetime, or is a child who is sold for a set period of time also enslaved? If parents are promised money for the child's labor, is that a salary or a purchase price? Lured by an agent with promises of money, 14-year-old Andy Irawan's parents forced him to join a group of eight other boys living on a jermal, a tennis-court-sized platform of rotting wood and leaky, rusted roofs 10 km off the north coast of Sumatra in the Malacca Strait. The boys...
...sell the independent label for $300 million. Levy knew that Island?s roster of popular acts, including U2 and Bob Marley, could boost PolyGram?s efforts to build market share quickly. But there was a caveat: if Levy wanted the deal, it had to be inked before the agent left the premises. Business executives negotiate for weeks, even months, before spending that kind of money. Not Levy. By 1 a.m., the deal was sealed. "He had the brains to assess the label?s financial and creative assets, comprehend their value, put it through to his bosses - and be proved right...