Word: counseled
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Since 1979, the Orioles have been the property of Washington Trial Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams, famed counsel to Joe McCarthy, Jimmy Hoffa and the Birdman of Alcatraz. No local buyer could be found when Williams bought the team for $12 million; now it is said to be worth $60 million. Williams' general manager until last October, Hank Peters, insists that "winning and losing are both team efforts" and the blame for the Orioles' decline belongs to "me, the owner, the manager, the players and the farm system." But the emphasis should be on the owner. Like...
Michael Dukakis' career has been marked by a supreme self-sufficiency. As Governor, he has tended to keep his own counsel. When asked to name his boss's five or six closest advisers, a Dukakis aide said, "Some people might argue that there aren't five or six." But in recent years Dukakis has learned, if only by necessity, to rely on a wider group. As the campaign gathers momentum, the outlines of a Dukakis brain trust are taking shape...
...Justice Department offering a fat target for Democratic attacks. Reagan, unmoved by the accounts of the resigned Justice officials, bellowed a loud no when asked last week whether Meese should resign. But not even Reagan may be able to stand by his pal when later this spring Independent Counsel James McKay issues what will be at best a highly critical report on Meese's unethical conduct...
Noonan once wrote for Dan Rather ("Autumn has dropped like a fruit") and then became Ronald Reagan's best lyricist ("The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them"). "When she left, the | Great Communicator sang no more," said Michael Horowitz, former counsel of OMB. George Bush tapped Noonan's talents, and she came up with his best line yet: "We have earned our optimism, we have a right to our confidence, and we have much...
...events that prompted the Irancontra scandal were illegal and undemocratic, said House Iran-contra Committee Counsel John Nields in a panel discussion last night...