Word: bratton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...channeled voices are from outer space. Come to the Phoenix Institute in Lexington, Ky., for example, and hear Lea Schultz speak with the voice of somebody called Samuel. "What Lea does," says Tripp Bratton, an official at the institute, "is she calms herself and tunes in to a signal. Everything has a vibration, even if it doesn't have a physical form. Then she becomes animated by the energy on the other end of the 'line.' It's direct telepathic communication." Samuel usually discusses problems he feels are present in the audience and then takes questions: What happened to Atlantis...
...Paul, Weiss discovered last year that a young associate, Michael David, had masterminded the "Yuppie Five" insider-trading scandal. Attorneys handling corporate mergers also sometimes get too close to the action. "Twenty years ago, lawyers said to clients, 'You can't do this,' " says Cardozo Law School Professor William Bratton. "Now the old professional values have been eclipsed by the desire to 'make the deal...
With that, federal officials wheeled vans to the doors, unloaded portable computers and typewriters and fanned across the bank's five floors, counting cash in the vault, poring over spread sheets and answering the ringing phones with "FDIC." In the executive suite, Secretary Debbie Bratton watched in disbelief as strangers carted off the Texas banking charter. Fretted New Accounts Representative Norma Villaloboz: "Everyone's in shock. Hopefully, somebody will...
...makes us want to go out on that field and destroy," says Halfback Melvin Bratton. As it happens, the Hurricanes' cleanest liver is their finest player and main destroyer. In Vinny Testaverde, they have produced a third quarterback for the ages in just the '80s, their sixth decade in the business but the first to speak of. The Hurricanes had a tradition in the '40s, but not of winning. They canceled a game with UCLA rather than play against Jackie Robinson...
...long-suffering understudy, Testaverde had become a figure of team sympathy. "When you see someone that good working that hard," Melvin Bratton says, "it's depressing. We kept telling him, 'Your time's coming, it's coming.' " Now that third-year Coach Jimmy Johnson describes him flatly as the "best college quarterback I've ever had," some of them marvel that he is unchanged. "He's just old Vinny," says Gregg Rakoczy, the center. "He wants to show how good we are, not how good he is." Despite himself, Testaverde showed how good he was at eluding the Sooner pass...