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...Aaron Altman in Broadcast News...
...Jane (Holly Hunter) is so focused that even her sobbing fits are controlled; she performs them each morning like aerobics. She is properly repelled by Tom, and improperly attracted to him. Improperly, because she has a perfect pal -- not a soul mate exactly, but a brain mate -- in Aaron Altman (Albert Brooks), a warm, supercompetent, underappreciated reporter, the Jimmy Olsen of Mensa. Aaron can spit out pertinent facts about Gaddafi, he can get drunk and sing along in flawless French to a Francis Cabrel tune, he can love Jane to pristine pieces, all to no avail. Poor Aaron. He lacks...
Those high starting salaries, along with big premiums for the rainmakers, are adding to the tab for clients. Ward Bower of the legal consulting firm Altman & Weil reports that rates have been soaring, to as much as $350 an hour this year for a full partner (up from about $300 last year) and as much as $100 for work done by the newest associates. To control costs, some firms have | created a new second-tier position, sometimes called staff attorney. Often recruited from less prestigious schools and hired at bargain salaries, these lawyers handle the grunt tasks. Unlike regular associates...
...those behemoths, with more than $20 billion in total capital, the bloodletting was serious but not fatal. For at least half a dozen small brokerages, however, the selling pressure was too much to withstand. Some agreed to be swallowed by larger firms to avoid bankruptcy court. Predicted Edward Altman, professor of finance at New York University: "There will be more blood on the Street before this is all over...
...most remorseless and dangerous individuals I have come across in 24 years of practice." So said Judge Robert Altman as he sentenced Los Angeles Gang Member Michael Hagan to the maximum of 27 years to life for the first-degree murder of 17-year-old Kellie Mosier. Hagan, 23, claims he was high on the drug PCP last year when he pumped six bullets from a rifle into the back of a girl he had never...