Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What do you mean?" Browning snapped, and then, realizing what he had done, tried to withdraw the question. But Bailey was on his feet demanding that his client be allowed to answer, and Judge Carter ruled in his favor. Patty then proceeded to tell the startled jury, which had been shielded from the facts, about the bombing at San Simeon, adding that "my parents received a letter threatening my life if I took the witness stand, and they wanted a quarter of a million dollars put into the Bill and Emily Harris Defense Fund...
...point Bailey asked his client if she could estimate the number of times that S.L.A. members had threatened to kill her if she did not cooperate. "Hundreds of times," she answered, brushing away a tear...
...torn former Portuguese territory. In Africa, a number of moderate black leaders-as well as South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster-are clearly anguished. In general, the moderates are less concerned about direct Russian influence and bases in Angola than about the prospect that potential Soviet client states, beefed up with Russian military and economic aid, might be tempted to interfere in the domestic affairs of their neighbors-with or without Moscow's approval. Zambia is already concerned about subversion by the M.P.L.A. regime in Luanda. Kenya and Ethiopia are afraid that Somalia, a major recipient...
...shape its bid and funnel back useful intelligence on government needs. All that is wholly ethical, and thus it often is next to impossible to determine how much of the agent's fee is a legitimate business expense and how much is passed on in bribes?particularly because the client companies have good reason for not trying to find out. If they do not know, they can, with only moderately queasy conscience, treat the agent's fee as a tax-deductible business expense. Then, if bribes become public knowledge, company executives can deny with a straight face having ever knowingly...
...York Federal Judge Marvin E. Frankel points to a much deeper problem in the procedural games that adversary attorneys play. Because they often use the rules to trample the truth, Frankel has gently proposed thinking about such startling changes as requiring attorneys to disclose anything they learn from a client that clearly bears on his guilt, encouraging judges to call their own witnesses and requiring the defendant to face a judge's questions in front of the jury?which could then draw conclusions if he exercised his Fifth Amendment privilege to remain silent...