Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...France's advantage, Delors threatened, France would withdraw, a move that would severely undermine what little European unity exists. Delors held 13 separate meetings with West German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg, some lasting hours, some just a few minutes. According to a West German insider, Delors's behavior was "beyond belief." He was said to have threatened, raged and thrown temper tantrums. Said Stoltenberg privately of the marathon negotiations: "It was an experience I would not want to repeat." But in the end, Delors's intransigence paid off. He improved on Mitterrand's "final" position...
THERE is clearly something wrong with a lawyer who knowingly protects fraudulent clients. Yet the Bar Association rules as now adopted make his behavior the only route possible in the circumstances. This was not what those who spent six years drafting the code were after. They envisioned a lawyer responsible to his client, but aware and flexible in extreme situations, Robert Meserve, a Boston lawyer who now heads the Bar Association commission which produced the proposed rules, called the action taken in New Orleans "unfortunate." Both he and Geoffrey C. Hazard, a Yale law professor now visiting at Harvard...
...might divulge information. John C. Elam, an Ohio litigator and past president of the American College of Trial Lawyers, led the attack in New Orleans. He believes that the commission which drafted the rules had a "misguided approach": a lawyer should not in any way police his client's behavior, he asserts, but simply "get all the facts and then convince the client to do the right thing...
...police could apprehend him. Police Chief Paul Locke, 35, however, says there was no such deal. In any case, Simmons and Harris failed to notify the police of their arrival on the scene, an omission that both sides termed disastrous. Says Chief Locke:"I am very critical of their behavior...
Northerners inclined to dismiss the case as the atavistic behavior of a small Southern town should keep in mind the murder of 30-year-old William Atkinson in Boston last spring. Atkinson, a maintenance worker, was with a friend when the two were attacked by a gang of bottle-throwing white men, who chased Atkinson into the Savin Hill T station. As he fled down the tracks in terror, Atkinson was struck and killed by an oncoming train...