Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ATLANTA--Boston Red Sox pitcher Bruce Hurst chose geography over money yesterday when the free agent signed a three-year, $5.25 million deal with the San Diego Padres...
...Bills' success is the result, in large part, of lavish trades and draft picks, and canny free-agent signings. Wilson gave a free hand and an open ! checkbook to Polian and coach Marv Levy, 60, now in his third year with the Bills after spells in the U.S. Football League and the Canadian Football League. The result: 15 of 22 starters are top-round draft picks. Building around veteran All-Pro nose tackle, 285-lb. Fred Smerlas, Buffalo has structured the A.F.C.'s best defense. They have held opponents to just one touchdown in the past four games and have...
...British agent Bernard Samson proved himself a good candidate for early retirement in Len Deighton's trilogy Berlin Game, Mexico Set and London Match. Samson's career was not advanced by his wife Fiona's defection to the Soviet Union or by the unreliability of the KGB operative Samson had enticed to the West. And, to top it off, field-wise Bernard found himself ill-suited to maneuvering inside the bureaucracy at London headquarters...
...does FBI agent Anderson (Gene Hackman) like baseball? Because, as he keeps telling people in Mississippi Burning, "it's the only game where a black man can wave a stick at a white man without starting a riot...
Ward, the idealistic agent, understands and relishes the symbolic significance of his case. If the bodies of the missing youths can be recovered and it can be proved that they were murdered by organized racism, then their deaths will be redeemed by martyrdom and justice. The movie argues that Ward's confrontational tactics, which include bringing in a huge investigative task force and attracting excessive national media attention, not only delay progress on the case but also stir more violent crimes in response: beatings, church burning, even a lynching...