Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Karuna-Karan was told by a court clerk yesterday that he could end the case immediately by pleading guilty. But Karuna-Karan said last night, "I'm going to fight this all the way through." He has not yet entered a formal plea...
...Gunther Detert remembers thinking that he would have trouble with objections to evidence. "But it came easy," he said after presiding over a fire-damage case. "I could see it a mile off. The real area of work was preparing instructions for the jury. The court people, the clerk and reporter and bailiff, keep you right on track. I really had fun." Added Goodin: "When you're up there running the joint, it's different. You have to react instead of act. From being a rabid advocate, you've got to try to become a wise...
...Muller expects the worst from human beings and has not been disappointed. He once arrested a court clerk in the act of taking a lawyer's bribe right under the judge's nose. He recalls walking into another judge's chambers to find His Honor flagrante delicto with a prostitute he had just acquitted. At a national Democratic Convention, Muller has observed an incumbent President staggering drunk and a naked call girl being thrown out of the hotel room of a prominent favorite...
...nothing radical in his background. Once a noted athlete (soccer and hurling, a rough form of field hockey) he became a civil servant, then a lawyer, and was a relatively undistinguished Minister of Finance when opposing Fianna Fail factions chose him Prime Minister. While he was a legal clerk, he met his future wife, then a civil service secretary. They are childless, but his affection for children is deep; when he heard of the death of 18-month-old Angela Gallagher, hit by a sniper's ricochet in Belfast, he wept openly. A practicing Catholic, the blue-eyed, graying...
...biggest chunk of those jobs are in Lockheed's headquarters in Burbank and the TriStar plant at nearby Palmdale, Calif. Thus when the Senate clerk announced the vote, there was great joy in those towns. Telephone lines were jammed as relatives and friends spread the news. Champagne flowed at the local union halls. Restaurants were crowded for the first time in months. Ever since Lockheed began laying off some 9,000 TriStar workers last winter, local residents had been putting off decisions about whether to buy new cars or refrigerators. Sales-tax receipts in Burbank had fallen 24% from...