Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fortas--New Deal liberal whiz kid, chief counsel in the Gideon case, drafter of what amounted to a Juvenile Bill of Rights while an associate Supreme Court justice--owned a chauffeur-driven two-tone Rolls Royce. It is a harsh fact to remember...
...messages are powerful and contradictory. Rock videos suggest orgiastic sex. Public health officials counsel "safe sex." Prudence -- and morality -- would recommend no sex to children, who have no clear idea of what sex is anyway. Oprah Winfrey and Phil Donahue conduct seminars on such subjects as lesbian nuns, exotic drugs, transsexual surgery, serial murders. Television pours into the imaginations of children a bizarre version of reality. But TV has a certain authority in loco parentis. It is there when the kids come home...
Wedtech. Again at Wallach's urging, Meese in 1982 provided what McKay called "instrumental" help to Wedtech, a New York City firm, so that it could land a $32 million Government contract. He intervened despite warnings by Fred Fielding, counsel to the President, and Craig Fuller, assistant to the President, that the White House should not get involved in contract awards. McKay, however, found no evidence that Meese got anything of value for his assistance or violated...
...local communities throughout the country. But last April Mott's boss, Interior Secretary Donald Hodel, chewed out the pair and demanded they abandon their efforts. Soon after, Mott and Fraser received a memorandum from Interior's legal office telling them they were under investigation and should retain outside legal counsel. "Hodel humiliated Mott," says one department official...
...overbearing," though he listens "objectively." His benchmate John Paul Stevens is a "maverick." Byron White writes in a manner that is "hard to understand." But far more irritating is the behavior of Reagan Appointee Antonin Scalia, who "asks far too many questions ((and)) takes over the case from the counsel." Even Sandra Day O'Connor, herself a dogged questioner, has become "exasperated" by Scalia...