Word: agente
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...read the details to believe this stuff. The New York Mets say the reason they've pulled out of the auction for free-agent shortstop Alex ("A-Rod") Rodriguez is the extras demanded by agent Scott Boras, who counters that these things were hardly "demands" and that, anyway, he didn't make some of them. Whatever--the add-ons to a 12-year, $300 million contract reportedly include an escalator clause that would automatically bump A-Rod's salary over anyone else's; a luxury box at the stadium for the star's entourage; private jet service; a tent...
...poster boy for greed, and while Boras might claim that this is unfair because everyone is grabbing, he's wrong. Pedro Martinez of the Boston Red Sox is certainly the best pitcher in the game. The Red Sox are presently engaged in a bidding war for free agent Mike Mussina, surely one of the 25 or 30 best pitchers in the game. Mussina will eventually be paid about $15 million per year--more than Martinez. And so sportswriters ran to Pedro last week anticipating a column's worth of Latin temper. What they got was this: Sign...
...cleaning the gutters on the roof. Preventive care is a pain. It's amazing, though, how much trouble can turn up. Did you know, for example, that coverage guaranteeing you'll have enough money to rebuild your house is disappearing? That's what my Allstate agent told me a few weeks ago, and I was floored. Isn't the main point of homeowner's insurance to ensure that you can replace your house should it burn down...
Using the Scour Media Agent, users could gain access to a wide range of media hosted by other servers and websites. The program, however, was less reliable than those based on the peer-to-peer paradigm--such as Napster--which allow users to download files directly from other clients who were also logged into to the service...
...summer of 1999, Scour gained the backing of Michael Ovitz, former Disney president and Hollywood agent--a development that industry analysts thought might help it gain the support of the movie industry...