For two decades, Cooper has been the pre-eminent agent for N.B.A. coaches.
Sam Jaffe, the pre-eminent agent of his day and a producer credited with saving Paramount Studios from financial ruin in the 1920's, died on Jan . 10at a hospital in Los Angeles.
The company of Scott Boras, baseball's pre-eminent agent, provided tens of thousands of dollars in loans and payments to the families of poor Dominican teenage prospects, according to people with ties to Mr. Boras, raising questions about whether the company exploited the prospects and violated the rules of the Major League Baseball Players Association.
As the negotiator behind four of the five largest contracts in team sports history and the pre-eminent agent in the NBA, Falk was a contributor to the spike in player salaries that saw the average NBA contract rise from $330,000 in 1984, the year Jordan was signed, to $4.5 million in 2001, when he stepped down as Chairman of SFX Sports Group.
I am thinking about this because tomorrow night the Association of Authors Representativess, the pre-eminent agents' group, with about 350 members, will celebrate its 10th anniversary at the hip and snappy W Hotel at Union Square.
Hence, security is an eminent factor.
This, I think, hints a little at pleasure in being represented by Andrew "the Jackal" Wylie, the pre-eminent transatlantic agent of his generation, and a lot at habituation to having well-appointed institutional rooms at his disposal.
Radiohead, the British rock band that is regarded as the pre-eminent free agent in the global music business, is close to signing a series of deals to release its next album independently and leave the major record companies behind.
It is the pre-eminent etiologic agent of cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among women [ 1].
Through a series of almost Jamesian twists and turns - snatches of conversation overheard at a literary party; an exchange of emails with one eminent publisher-turned-agent whose ethics he describes as "devious" - he became aware, with a rising sense of panic, that a spate of other books on Henry James were also due to be published imminently.
I got a bad feeling that summer and asked my agent, an eminent sort who professed to love Bastard Sons, "What will you do if Bantam turns down the sequel?" He said, "I will go out with it in a big way, I promise".
