Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Answer: Five. One to tell the Lampoon's agent to do it, and four to sit around and pat each other on the back for being so darn funny...
There's no reason why video chains like Blockbuster or Videosmith couldn't be a target. It won't be long before an FBI agent nonchalantly waltzes in to rent a couple of dirty movies and waltzes in a few days later with orders to seize not just that store, but every one in the chain. That kind of multi-million dollar ante doesn't exactly encourage store managers to vigorously assert their free speech rights by testing what does and doesn't violate community standards...
What happens if the Vikes don't win the Super Bowl this year? Walker will be a free agent in 1990, meaning that Minnesota will have to pay him more money to stay. Sounds like good business...
...raped child. Why are "incest" and "sexual abuse" always in categories separate from "rape"? "Incest" is a noun, not a verb; there's no such thing as "to incest," and the victim and agent of incest are indistinguishable "committers of incest." "Committing incest" in our language is conceived as merely a violation of the accepted law and morality, not of the privacy of a woman's or child's body...
...series of studies coordinated by Dr. Charles Moertel of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., researchers tested a combination of two drugs: 5- fluorouracil, a proven anticancer agent, and levamisole, a medication commonly used by veterinarians to clear worms from the intestines of animals. Included in the studies were some 1,700 cancer patients, most of whom had been operated on for Dukes' C colon cancer. In this stage of the cancer, the tumor has penetrated the bowel wall but has not spread to the rest of the body. The results of the first study, which appeared in this month...