Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bought. Meanwhile, the committee became interested in rumors about the propensity of Justice David McCain to rule in favor of Attorney Joseph D. Parish Jr., who actively supported McCain's campaign for the court. In nearly every case he has heard involving Parish clients, McCain voted their way.* One winning client testified that Parish advised her to lie about an illegally unreported $1,000 campaign contribution to McCain. Other evidence indicated that McCain once had an aide investigate grounds for appealing a lower-court decision against a Parish client, then voted for the client when the appeal reached...
...with the Houses, which were social and intellectual centers." Handlin attributes the change to a transformation in the nature of contact between students and faculty. "A lot of the relations that had prevailed down to 1966-68 later came to seem paternalistic. Now we work according to customer and client obligations. You do what is required, and you don't do anything more. Undergraduates don't realize that there's something personal missing...
...misunderstood the time referred to when he failed to tell the federal grand jury about his Oct. 26 meeting with Jacobsen-even though his grand jury testimony took place only 19 days later. He insisted that the two men met only to consider a problem that a Connally client was having in securing a bank charter. Tuerkheimer also wanted to know why Connally told the grand jury that he saw Jacobsen only once during the fall of 1973, since logs Introduced by the prosecution proved that he saw him a number of times. Connally said that he did not carefully...
Melodramatic though Williams' appeal may have been, it worked. Connally is still not entirely free of trouble, but it appears that he soon will be. In pretrial motions Williams managed to have separated two perjury counts and one conspiracy count against his client, and the day after Big John's acquittal the special prosecutor's office went into court and moved to have the charges dismissed. Jacobsen is still awaiting sentencing on the charge of offering a gratuity to a public official. The maximum penalty for that offense is two years in prison...
This year, warned Touche Ross & Co., a major New York accounting firm, stockholders worried by the recession would show up in force and ask tough, possibly angry questions. To help such clients as Sears, Roebuck & Co., Boeing and Prudential Insurance, Touche Ross put together a memo warning management to expect sharp queries in three main areas: the ability of the company to cope with such business conditions as liquidity shortages, the management of corporate assets, and the reliability of the firm's financial reports. Early meetings have borne out the predictions. At last week's annual meeting...