Staff and travel agents have a list of tell-tale signs, they said.
But even the best agents miscalculate once in a while (Boras ranks No. 3 in our list of baseball's best agents).
To determine how much the women on our list earned we talked to agents, managers, producers and lawyers.
As part of this process, agents in Cincinnati came up with a list of things to look for in an application.
In 1986, Dr. Chari pored over a list of 3, 400 possible agents before finding two that seemed to be potent enough.
To compile our list we talk to dozens of agents, managers, producers, lawyers and other people in the know to come up with estimates for what each celebrity earned over the past 12 months.
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He's become one of a growing list of players who, ignored by super agents but leery of entrusting all of their finances to a single smaller agent, sought out a financial adviser on his own.
When federal agents made a search of his work area they found a list of the FBI's most sensitive telephone numbers, including the Bureau's "black" lines used for wiretapping.
But if your MLB franchise is among the top of the payroll list, recent history indicates your chances of getting free agents and dancing on the biggest stage are much enhanced.
Joe Montoya of New Mexico announced plans in 1972 to hold hearings on IRS abuses, the agency added his name to a list of tax protesters who were capable of violence against IRS agents.
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Kelly and his lieutenants began going down the list of Southwest sacraments: short hauls only, no travel agents, no first-class cabins, no tickets, no meals, no gates at major airports and no extra fees.
The EU list is supposed to be brought to the attention of customers by travel agents, both at ticket sales offices and on their Web sites, EU officials said.
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New York hit a team-record 245 homers last year but Nick Swisher, Raul Ibanez, Russell Martin and Eric Chavez left as free agents, and Alex Rodriguez and Curtis Granderson will start the season on the disabled list.
Many mid-list authors have fallen victim to increasingly sophisticated, widely available sales data, according to agents and publishers.
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