Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie The Fortune Cookie, the ambulance-chasing lawyer says that his crumpled client can be cured because doctors keep abreast of sophisticated new treatment techniques by reading TIME. The heroine of Lois Gould's recent novel Such Good Friends observes that the procedures being tried on her stricken husband will make the Medicine section if they work. In Pierre Salinger's present bestselling On Instructions of My Government, a Mafia type reads TIME'S Latin American edition and discovers that he may be the quarry of an FBI manhunt...
Most students during their second or third years spend at least 15 hours a week talking to and representing clients, often in the municipal court three blocks from the school. Students have also taken over a psychiatrist's vacant office in the Wayne County jail for on-the-spot legal consultations. "This is really the underside of the law," explains one student. "Defending indigents is a source of rip-offs for many shady lawyers. They get paid by the court for spending as little as five minutes with a client after cronies on the bench assign them...
CAIRO is Moscow's foremost client in the Middle East. Yet during the brief period two weeks ago when it looked as if the Sudan might fall under the control of a pro-Communist regime, Egypt's leaders moved swiftly to prevent that from happening. They airlifted some 2,000 Sudanese troops from positions along the Suez Canal to Khartoum to ensure the success of General Numeiry's countercoup, flying them there in Soviet-supplied Antonov transports. According to a Cabinet Minister from neighboring Libya, both Egypt and Libya were preparing to intervene if the countercoup failed...
Communication between a lawyer and his client is, of course, privileged; any public recounting of such a private confidence by a lawyer can be grounds for disbarment. But in most jurisdictions the privilege does not apply when a client seeks his attorney's advice apparently for the purpose of breaking...
...fate of Lockheed's L-1011 jet still hangs precariously in the Congress. Yet last week ailing Boeing, which has laid off more than 90,000 workers in the past three years, became the heavy favorite to develop a new line of jumbo aircraft. Its prospective client: the Japanese government, which is racing its engines to enter the superjet...