Word: client
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time Nero takes on the "whole, damn Federal Bureau of Investigation." He does it mostly because he is offered the biggest fee he has ever had, and this promises months and months of gourmandizing before he would need to go back to work. His client is a middle-aged widow who has sent friends and bigwigs thousands of copies of a book attacking the FBI. Ever since, the G-men have been following and harassing her. She wants Nero to make them lay off. The fat genius plunges in, following a tortuous, tightly plotted path until a nifty stunt...
...state cooperation, nonetheless says that there should be "watchful vigilance," lest the church become "just another social agency." The Rev. Dean Kelley of the National Council of Churches also worries that U.S. Christianity may become so involved in social projects that it runs the risk of becoming just another client of government. "The greatest function of the modern church," he says, "is that of focusing moral power, not exercising public administration...
Where do American TV shows go after the networks are through with them? One popular retirement resort is London, where the British Broadcasting Corp. is an eager client of last year's Perry Mason and Independent Television pays top prices for such rejects as The Reporter−which wasso bad, even by the indifferent standards of U.S. audiences, that CBS dropped it in mid-series. American shows are so popular in Britain that ITV has always given them the choicest hours of its prime evening time...
...puffed on his cigar and pin pointed the urgent issue facing him as new president of the A.B.A. The bar, said Kuhn, is just waking up to the fact that millions of Americans yearn for group practice; events are outpacing the lawyer's one-to-one relationship with clients. Warned Kuhn: "We've got to make up our minds as to whether we're going to face the facts of life or stick our heads in the damned sand." Apart from caution or complacency, the chief pressure against change comes from the A.B.A.'s 1908 canons...
...retain their hard-won respectability, executive searchers operate discreetly and diplomatically. They refuse fees from the men they recruit, thus can remain objective in describing the prospect's qualifications to the client company. A likely prospect is seldom contacted at work, instead is phoned at home. "The higher up in their company they are," says Robert E. Wallace, president of Philadelphia's Bennett Associates, "the closer they are to the door if they are found talking to us." Appointments with prospects are carefully scheduled to avoid the possibility of an embarrassing meeting with other executives in the recruiter...