Word: conducters
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Cultural Survival was founded in 1972 by Professor of Anthropology David H.P. Maybury-Lewis and his wife Pia Maybury-Lewis after they traveled to Brazil to study its indigenous people to conduct research on David Maybury-Lewis's thesis...
Lawrence Walsh's probe of the Iran-contra allegations ratcheted up the debate about the statute because he spent so much time and money on the job. Walsh was the first independent counsel to conduct a wide-ranging and costly ($47 million) investigation. It resulted in seven guilty pleas and four convictions (two were overturned, and George Bush pardoned six of the targets). There has been grumbling about various probes since Walsh's, but only Starr's ever expanding Whitewater investigation, which is likely to exceed the cost of Walsh's inquiry, has been so castigated...
...book jacket enticingly advertises within its pages that "Stracher doesn't mince words about the outrageous practices and questionable conduct of many of the lawyers on the highest rungs of the legal profession." Stracher, indeed, does not "mince words." His prose is clear, accessible and peppered with frequent and helpful explanations--the distinction between criminal and civil law, the hierarchy of law office personnel, the legal prescriptions for whatever case he's working on, but despite the potential of Stracher's writing to produce a real shocker and the attractive claims of its book jacket, Double Billing hardly lives...
Stracher's few mentions of sex in Double Billing go only so far as to relate the unspoken rules of office conduct--whom an associate could and could not sleep with (anyone but the paralegals)--and a blandly uncontroversial dalliance between two colleagues. I could unearth greater scandal among postal workers...
Also, for the first time, the ACSR reccommended approving proposals that ask companies to endorse the Ceres Principles, a code of conduct for the environmentally sound performance of corporations. The ACSR had previously called the Principles poorly written and too hard for companies to implement...