Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...temptation-prone come from all income levels. One client of New York's Community Credit Counseling Service made $80,000 a year as a brokerage-house partner and counted on receiving a $300,000 inheritance, so he ran up bills of more than $150,000. Still waiting for the inheritance, he is now spending almost half his income to pay off under an extended plan at $3,100 a month. In Los Angeles, Kenneth Breckenridge, 42, a mail sorter, and his wife Genevieve, a teacher in the Head Start program, found themselves paying $1,178 of their combined...
...third member of the panel, trial attorney and author George V. Higgins, quoted G. Gordon Liddy, his client, saying, "Prison never corrected anybody. Occasionally, some one decides to give up a life of crime voluntarily, but usually because he is pretty...
...pointed out to them that technically this represents a conflict of interest but as long as a client understands this ahead of time there is no problem," Cox said yesterday...
Keeping the Peace. Before a neophyte Special can sign up a client, he or she spends 98 hours in police training, shooting cardboard crooks on the pistol range, learning self-defense and boning up on details of police legal procedure. Then, after approval by the chief of police and the police commission, the trainee hires on as an apprentice to a full-fledged Special, often the officer who later sells him the beat. The traditional price is ten times the monthly revenue from the beat...
...Rosalynn, few outside the fashion business had heard of Rompollo. His main business is supplying medium-priced ($100-$300), ready made dresses to department stores and dress shops. Mrs. Carter is his first custom client. Among Rompollo's dress-shop outlets is Jason's in Americus, Ga.. where Rosalynn sometimes goes to buy her clothes off the rack. "Mrs. Carter is totally unimpressed by famous-name labels." says Jason's President Jack Moses. "If she likes an inexpensive item, she'll take the inexpensive item...