The Cole affair involved two top clubs, arguably the best left-back in the world, two controversial agents and a football governing body at last prepared to uphold the rules, whatever the cost.
At Bolton it is a history of strange and often unexplained goings-on if one thinks back to the infamous Panorama documentary about Allardyce and, later on, the considerable influence of Mark Curtis, one of the industry's more controversial agents.
Clancy's book and entertainment contracts set numerous publishing records, but he had a well-publicised public break-up with Gottlieb, ostensibly over his dissatisfaction with film rights and the casting of his film adaptations, and switched to the controversial Hollywood agent Michael Ovitz.
Controversial nerve-agent pesticides widely linked to decline in bees around the world should be banned, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) says today.
The operation is controversial because agents used the tactic of "walking guns" - that is, allowing weapons to remain on the street rather than swiftly interdicting them - and eventually lost track of about 2,000 weapons, most of which likely made it to Mexico.
Defense lawyers in the Newburgh case refer to the informant — Shaheed Hussain, a Pakistani who was an informant in an earlier terrorism sting in Albany that was controversial — as an agent provocateur who earned his keep by scouring mosques for easy targets.
(The VA has controversial rules regarding Agent Orange to determine who is eligible for care and compensation).
Besides, although a different study has already suggested the potential of PL to promote cardiac phenotype of ADMSCs [ 12], the commitment was driven by a combination of PL and 5-azacytidine (a widely used, although controversial, cardiac transdifferentiation agent [ 14]), thus masking the real efficacy of PL.
The tactics were controversial among bureau agents, and the case exploded after last December, when a Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, was killed in a shootout in Arizona.
It was controversial because some agents believed that their supervisors, bent on identifying ringleaders, were not letting them move quickly to bust low-level straw purchasers and get the guns off the street.
