Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...focus of Kissinger's ire is the 12,000-man force that Castro dispatched to Angola last year to help Moscow bring its client regime to power. At present Moscow's Latin Hessians seem to be marking time in the former Portuguese colony, perhaps while waiting for another African assignment. One possibility is Rhodesia, where Prime Minister Ian Smith's white minority regime faces the beginnings of what could be a bloody "war of liberation...
...firms--Supreme Life of America and North Carolina Mutual--will each receive $13 million in insurance contracts, and Valentine said the firms will benefit substantially from having a prestigious client like...
...convenience of the photographer and his client, many of the posed photographs are now taken long before or long after the event. "The formal of the bride," James Purcell of Bachrach Studios remarks, "is taken two weeks before the wedding with fake flowers. They photograph just as well." But the difference is visible; the formal portraits of more recent date are stiffer, more defensive. What Herbert Talerman calls the "gorgeous innocence of those early people," the proud hauteur of the bride who felt herself being immortalized by the camera, gives way to a nervous reserve as the formal portrait comes...
Before the crossexamination, the week had begun with typical bits of spectacular stage-managing by Bailey to drive home to the jury the horrors that his client faced while being held captive by the S.L.A. The jurors were taken to see the two closets that Patty claimed had been her tiny prison cells after her abduction. The expedition turned out to be a mob-and-media event that might have been conceived by Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust...
RICHARD SANDERS, ATTORNEY, proclaimed the headline of a recent quarter-page advertisement in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. At the bottom of the copy was a clip-out coupon with check-off boxes ("Family Law," "Personal Injury," "Wills and Probate") so that a potential client could indicate which legal services he wanted to know more about. The advertising trade may have been thrilled by such an unprecedentedly bold pitch (it drew 450 replies), but Sanders' peers were less enthusiastic. One has already brought an ethics complaint to the Washington state bar asking for disciplinary action against the young (30) lawyer...