Word: collared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Never in this kind of conversation does anyone mention the exact type of law to be practiced. General references are made, of course. Sometimes there is a vague mention of white-collar crime. Sometimes there is talk of environmentalism. Sometimes, the really liberal people, the ones who feel like they're "selling out," will criticize Harvard Law Dean Robert C. Clark's recent (unsarcastic) remarks on the "intensely moral" nature of corporate management...
...Wild at Heart press book, Lynch's biography reads, in its entirety: "Eagle Scout Missoula Montana." And at his Cannes press conference, this ordinary looking fellow with the buttoned-up collar and the untied shoelace answered questions with the blissed-out graciousness of an Eagle Scout from Mars. Told by one reporter that his films are rife with graphic visions of violence, he stared benignly and replied, "I have even worse." Asked about the similarities in cast and tone between Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart, he said, "The main thing they have in common is wood." Oh. Any more...
...fiscal ruin? And, of more immediate concern, should they have a drink while waiting? Perhaps not. After all, a leading contender was known to be Timothy S. Healy, a Jesuit priest. Sure enough, when the door opened, the big, bulky man who entered was wearing a Roman collar. Silence. He walked into the stiff assemblage and said in a gravelly baritone, "Anybody got a light...
Step one for the tobacco industry has been to refocus its marketing strategy. Starting with the premise that only a total ignoramus would start smoking, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company has targeted a minimally educated demographic subgroup: 18 to 24-year-old, white, blue-collar women, a.k.a. "virile women," one of the few groups within which smoking is increasing. (In reality, "18 to 24-year-old" is a euphemism for "teenage," the age group that includes fully nine out of 10 new smokers...
...designated for sale or closure in the weeks ahead, the legacy of fraud is likely to keep paying handsomely for asset chasers like Pankau. His firm claims to have increased its revenues 50% in each of the past five years, and plans new offices in such growing white-collar-crime capitals as Arizona and Florida. Pankau has even taken a few lessons from the bad guys, spreading the ownership of his company among his three children, through trusts. That, he explains, is partly to protect himself from liability suits in case any of his targets try to get revenge...