Word: agente
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Despite the terrible threat of chemical and biological terrorism, it has never been very effectively accomplished. One exception was a horrifying event in Tokyo, when a nerve gas called SARIN, an agent originally used by the Nazis, was placed in five subway cars during rush hour, killing 12 and sickening thousands...
Casting a cold eye on Iraq, which experts believe has stockpiled as much anthrax as any other nation on Earth--except possibly Russia--is not merely an automatic response to threatening times. Intelligence reports indicate that an Iraqi agent has met with an associate of Osama bin Laden. Also, Mohamed Atta, the Sept. 11 hijacker, reportedly had a June 2000 encounter with an Iraqi operative in Prague. There is as yet no evidence linking Iraq to the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, but with four verified exposures to anthrax in the U.S. and a highly unstable situation...
...already lost their jobs--including 16 workers that McClure himself had to let go to guarantee that his $118 million-a-year business would make it through the current turbulence. "When you look at the big picture, our situation is a lot better," says Maria Meza, 37, a travel agent who has been at Montrose for six years. To handle the pay cut, she has scaled back her weekly housecleaning service to every other week and eats out less often with her husband and three children...
Steve Feldman, a travel agent in Highland Park, Ill., certainly hopes that's not the case. His income, based primarily on commissions at the Far Horizons agency, is already down 25% this year. That's not enough, however, to make him trade his job for the security of one with a more dependable, flat salary. "Even though it's riskier," he says, "there's a greater possible reward." Like millions of other workers nowadays, Feldman, who specializes in organizing gambling junkets, might just have to wait a little longer to hit the jackpot...
Local 40 business agent Joe Power called for a permanent end to outsourcing—which has been halted since the end of last spring’s PSLM sit-in—and for Harvard to fully unionize its work force...