Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Very well then. By the '70s I will have become an industry, the star of countless films and books. Nicholas Meyer's The Seven- Per-Cent Solution will even make me the client and Sigmund Freud the detective...
...neck like a reiterated threat of the garrote, a necktie can serve to restrain and discipline. That, at least, is the theory behind having little boys in private schools wear them; it doesn't always work. Neckties also represent a gesture of respect. A lawyer always advises his client to appear in court wearing a coat and tie. It shows that you have the deference to make yourself uncomfortable. Several years ago, a Florida judge cited a lawyer for contempt of court when the lawyer showed up wearing a gold medallion around his neck instead...
There is some speculation that he may give up this opportunity and remain an engineer at the Ames Research Center, a NASA laboratory where he has worked since 1967. But he insists that he plans to study medicine, and his attorney, Reynold Colvin, says his client is no social crusader. "He's a private man who felt that he'd been dealt with unfairly," says Colvin, who has advanced his client much of the cost of the long campaign. "He has stuck with it because it's his dream to become a doctor. He's a determined gentleman...
...Both Burns and Pinkerton's typically begin such a consultation with a "threat analysis," aimed at determining the degree of peril to which the company and its high-level executives are exposed. After that study, which may take as long as six months if the client has overseas branches, the advisers draw up a plan that outlines exactly how the company should react in various emergency and hostage situations, and designates which officers would make up the crisis staff...
...they encourage kidnapings. But some brokers say that sales of such policies on the London insurance market alone have more than doubled in the past two years, with as much as 70% of Lloyd's K and R business coming from American multinationals. The insurers commonly require the client corporation to exercise "due diligence" in protecting its executives; this means retaining security experts and acquiring protective gadgetry. (Lloyd's, not surprisingly, owns a prospering corporate security agency, Control Risks...