Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout his questioning of Mitchell, Fleming tried to portray his client as a man far too preoccupied by day-to-day matters to go out of his way to help Vesco. The ploy is part of a defense effort to strike at the heart of the Government case by denying that there was sufficient motivation for Mitchell and Stans to become unduly concerned about Vesco's fate for a mere $200,000, when Stans had already collected much larger sums from other men who expected no favors...
...Soviet-American auspices. But the Russians, who for years have been the chief arms suppliers to the Arab world, feel humiliated and embarrassed that they have seemingly contributed nothing to the shaping of a possible peace and that Kissinger has quickly made friends with Egypt, once a virtual Soviet client. Soviet resentment is visceral and obvious: last week pointed articles appeared in Pravda and other Soviet publications charging that Kissinger had negotiated disengagement, not for the Middle East's benefit, but to protect U.S. oil sources. It was a rare criticism of the American agent whom the Russians know...
...client agreed to conciliate with other parties immediately after the EEOC charges were released...
...long after he finished Harvard Law School, James Draper St. Clair made his reputation as a superbly skilled trial lawyer in a 1954 dispute-over cranberries. His client, Cape Cod Food Products, Inc., sued the National Cranberry Association, now Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., charging attempted monopoly. Typically, St. Clair not only immersed himself in the legal issues but also diligently learned everything about cranberries, including how weather and flooding affect them. In court he meticulously demolished the association's case. St. Clair won treble damages of $525,000 for his client and rare praise in court from Judge Charles...
...Tuesday night, Maguire executives met with community groups to answer charges that it had unethically altered a report for another client, the Massachusetts Port Authority...