Word: client
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sawyer's lawyer, Lloyd Riley, argued that the prosecution's portrayal of his client as a latter-day Fagin was "absurd. He doesn't have the mental capacity to execute such schemes." But U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton decided last week that the coach had indeed taught his team to steal more than bases. He sentenced Sawyer, who had pleaded guilty to two counts of unarmed robbery, to a maximum 30 years in prison. Ten gang members had earlier received four to 24 years...
...university has already gained more than $2 million from companies that use university held patents on gene splicing techniques and two weeks ago added another client to its growing lists...
...police department they considered to be brutal to blacks and insensitive to citizens' rights. To soften his combative image during the current campaign, Rizzo signed up for some public relations cosmetology. First he hired New York Media Consultant David Sawyer, who attempted unsuccessfully to portray his barrel-chested client as wiser and mellower. Then Sawyer's replacement, Baltimore Consultant Robert Goodman, promised to show "not the old Rizzo or the new Rizzo, but the real Rizzo." Shortly after, Rizzo endorsed Bernard Epton, Washington's Republican opponent in Chicago, compared Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson to Adolf Hitler...
...Mujahedin guerrillas. In response, the mullahs invited KGB agents to Iran to provide military and economic advice. Last year Moscow proposed a treaty of friendship and mutual assistance with Iran, while offering repeatedly to mediate in Khomeini's 2½-year-old war against Iraq, a longtime Soviet client...
...customers agreed to wait at least twelve to 15 weeks to receive their metals. In the meantime, IGBE invested the customers' money, earned interest on it, and waited for metals prices to dip so that the company could pay less for the gold or silver sent to the client. The scheme worked well from 1980 to mid-1982, when metals prices were on a downward trend. But late last year prices started to rise, and the bullion often cost the company more than customers had paid. Says Attorney Tew: "The house of cards collapsed...