Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular there is one recurring mystery...something that has plagued me thoughout my conscious life. No, it has nothing to do with the shape of the splotch on Gorbachev's head. My problem lies much, much deeper...
Giant law firms have begun to resemble the huge, dollar- conscious corporations they serve, and are encountering some parallel problems...
...plus years of spiraling growth have transformed the major law firms, leaving many of them more like the corporate world they serve: dollar conscious, competitive, increasingly bureaucratized and less genteel. With 300 attorneys, Cadwalader would have been counted as a giant ten years ago. Now it ranks as merely a large outfit in a field that holds megafirms of 800 plus. The largest, Chicago-based Baker & McKenzie, just broke the 1,000 mark. Many of the behemoths are run by nonattorney managers who operate like corporate chiefs, drumming up sales and plotting growth strategies. Says Richard Santagati, the onetime head...
...opening half hour is as stiff and controlled as Margaret. House wears the self-conscious artiness of its images and characters like a badge, and Mamet's dialogue sounds impossibly stilted. The scenes between Crouse and her patients demonstrate that no one would ever tell this woman anything. Everything is terribly solemn and Bergman-esque...
...Catskill resorts he tried a series of personae. Sometimes he was a road-company Henny Youngman: "I grew up in a tough neighborhood. We played hopscotch with real Scotch." On other occasions he was a Xerox of Woody Allen: "I was so self-conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about...