Word: client
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest departure from the original blueprint is in the last third. Grisham's detached, careful trail to an explosive conclusion is replaced by direct, face-to-face confrontations in which Mitch and the others involved are in physical danger. The Mafia are portrayed as merely a client of the firm--an important client, to be sure, but not one with familial ties. The ending, which I won't give away, is also...
...shadows, calculating the night's take. But not all the pimps are gangsters. Often it is Father who sits in the backup car or Mother who negotiates the deal for her daughter. Little Brother may appear with a sponge and a pail of soapy water to wash a client's car for an extra...
...worldwide since the mid-1970s. Such figures are at best guesses and at worst only the tip of the iceberg. "The sex industry is a huge market with its own momentum," says Wassyla Tamzali, director of UNESCO's women's-rights department. "You have an infernal race between the client and the pimp to expand the boundaries, to find the newest experience possible. Selling a 14-year-old girl has become so commonplace, it is banal...
Demjanjuk's Israeli lawyer, Yoram Sheftel, went on ABC News' "Nightline" with Ryan and accused the Harvard attorney of supressing crucial evidence in order to "frame" his client. Ryan denied that charge then and he denies...
...foreign policy looks "passive and unbelievably amateurish" to nervous allies in Europe, says a senior U.S. diplomat. That is downright scary to leaders of client countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which must be able to count on Washington in a tight spot -- and an opening for those, like Saddam Hussein, who would love to make Clinton's life harder. Last week the appearance of disarray only heightened when Christopher had to disavow lunchtime remarks made to reporters by Under Secretary Peter Tarnoff, the State Department's chief operating officer. Tarnoff's principal sin appeared to be telling unpalatable truths...