Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Helicopter division in the mid-1960s. The executives, however, testified that they had considered the talk "cocktail-party rumor," unworthy of reporting to Miller. That seems plausible enough. At the time Bell officials were allegedly informed of Khatemi's interest in Air Taxi, Iran was a very minor client. Bell had sold only 15 helicopters to all of Asia during a four-year period in the mid-1960s, in comparison with 2,000 helicopters a year to the U.S. armed forces. Further, Bell is only one division of Textron, which also makes chain saws, roller bearings, zippers and myriad...
Eileen Ford, still the most successful model agent by far, is either motherly or tyrannical, depending on the viewpoint. Tiegs, who is Ford's client on the East Coast, has no complaints and probably should have none, considering that her income, largely earned through Ford, has been estimated at $300,000 a year. But Ford is not universally popular says a fashion photographer with satisfaction: "Now she's up against a businessman who's taking her best talent...
...acquired near hero status among fellow smokers by regularly offering a plausible reason for a recess, even though all he really wanted was a cigarette. Once, when he was representing Mitchell, Judge John Sirica angrily threatened to clear the courtroom after an outburst of laughter. Deadpanned Hundley, whose client was having a particularly bad day: "How do you feel about crying, Judge?" Spectators roared, and Sirica relaxed...
...highest court disagreed. The law provides a two-part test, the Court of Appeals majority held, and even though she lived with the other man, she had never suggested to anyone that they were married. Back alimony payments? Northrup's attorney said he had not heard from his client in years, and chances of any collection by Mrs. Northrup appear dubious at best...
...than Ogilvy, who scatters insights and anecdotes in his wake. He is a bust at farming, and at 38 he conquers Madison Avenue. His exploits there have been boomed in Ogilvy's bestselling Confessions of an Adman. Here he moves on to publicize his most complex and delightful client-himself...