Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cases tried by HVD are selected from two sources. First, from the memoranda of the jail interviews the officers pick out a certain number of cases, and with the agreement of the client and MDC, HVD takes over presentation. Secondly, HVD represents a growing number of people who walk into the office or call seeking help. These clients usually know HVD by reputation or have been represented by the organization before...
...close its foreign missions and bring home more than 4,000 AID employees now overseas. The corporation would work, instead, through international development bodies like the World Bank. Funneling aid through multinational organizations would free the United States from carrying the full burden of development aid and ease the client-patron hostilities that have crippled some aid projects. A technical-assistance institute would fill the vacuum m technical assistance left by the dismantling of AID missions...
Wall Street Lawyer Richard Nixon, after a trip to Asia in 1966 for his client Pepsi-Cola, put down some perceptive thoughts in Foreign Affairs that he was later to elaborate in the 1968 campaign. "Taking the long view." declared Nixon, "we simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside the family of nations, there to nurture its fantasies, cherish its hates, and threaten its neighbors. There is no place on this small planet for a billion of its potentially most able people to live in angry isolation...
...Royal Oak to escape break-ins (80 in six months), fire bombs, sniper bullets, and what President Sidney Rubin calls "almost continual stoning." Laments Rubin: "We had to put our crews on 24-hour shifts to protect the property. No private security patrol would take us as a client. We feared for the safety of our employees...
...revealed, Americans have committed a disturbing number of atrocities in Viet Nam. Many offenders have been strictly prosecuted. In 1 Corps in 1968, for example, seven Marines summarily hanged a Viet Cong suspect and shot two others to death. At a court-martial, one defense lawyer argued that his client had gone through "hell" after seeing Marine bodies "burned and tortured, some with their testicles cut off." Nonetheless all seven Marines were convicted and imprisoned, one for life...