Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...network of sources for the new conflict. Certainly recent technical developments in diagnosis and treatment have prevented the human contact that had been the trademark of the pre-twentieth century doctor-patient relationship. Increased emphasis upon the contractual aspect of the alliance between the professional and his lay client, and the consequent reduction of time spent between the two parties have enervated that once sacred affinity. Some have additionally, if not alternately, suggested that media advertising has provided a profitable--yet relatively inexpensive--spawning ground for diagnostic and remedial advice that contradicts a doctor's personalized treatment...
...students are conversant with literature, classics, and philosophy. In proper perspective, and mixed with a knowledge of the vocabularies and basic principles of the social and natural sciences, nothing can be more practical to the practicing lawyer than history, literature, and philosophy because policy decisions and lawyer-client decisions are far more often made through deductive rather than inductive logic...
...lawyer who practices estate law needs to know the latest tax decisions, but he will only serve his client adequately if he also knows about King Lear. When a lawyer advises a client to give part of his property to his children, the lawyer needs to temper his knowledge of the tax advantages of such a transfer with knowledge of how children behave towards parents from whom they have nothing more to expect materially. I suspect that a reading of Dickens' Bleak House will teach a lawyer more about the pitfalls of complicated trusts than an advanced seminar...
...Arab source-Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabia's powerful Minister of Oil and Mineral Wealth. Learning that Yamani was to fly from Beirut to Vienna, he bought a ticket for the same flight. "An airplane is a great place for an interview," Davidson says. "You have a captive client...
...Gray has testified that at one point White House Counsel John W. Dean 3rd "probably" lied to him in a Watergate-related matter. It is this same Dean that President Nixon claims is protected by "executive privilege" from testifying about Watergate. The use of executive privilege or the lawyer-client relationship as a cloak for criminal activity represents an act of creative legal interpretation not in keeping with the President's carefully cultivated image as a strict constructionist...