Word: counsels
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work--and life." Libby said that he was surprised he was being asked to "repeat for you the waiver of confidentiality that I specifically gave to your counsel over a year...
...been struggling since the disastrous merger in 2000 with AOL, which sent the company's share price plummeting. An Icahn-led group picked up 2.6% of the company, and "a boatload of hedge funds and other short-term players are sitting in the stock," said Patrick McGurn, special counsel at Institutional Shareholder Services, which advises on proxy fights. Yet so far, long-term investors aren't biting. Many credit Parsons for having already made progress in getting Time Warner's house in order. And after an uptick following the disclosure of Icahn's plan, the stock has barely budged...
George W. Bush doesn't like having Alberto Gonzales too far from his side. In 2001, Bush tapped the Texas judge for White House counsel and in 2004 for Attorney General--both leading roles in the war on terror. Gonzales, who declined to discuss who he thinks should succeed Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, spoke last week with TIME's Viveca Novak and others in the Washington bureau about detainee abuse, DNA testing and being attacked by fellow conservatives...
...little to help the few teenagers who were coming out. Both sides sense high stakes. "Same-sex marriage--that's out there. But something going on in a more fierce and insidious way, under the radar, is what's happening in our schools," says Mathew Staver, president of Liberty Counsel, an influential conservative litigation group that earlier this year won a court order blocking a Montgomery County, Md., teachers' guide that disparaged Evangelicals for their views on gays. "They"--gay activists--"know if they make enough inroads into [schools], the same-sex-marriage battle will be moot...
...idea [for HCMC] arose because I saw the opportunity to build community among undergraduates and the folks who live and work with them,” said Craig F. Rodgers, a counselor at the Bureau of Study Counsel. “There are three prongs—community building, raising some funds for causes that are near and dear to the hearts of many undergraduates, and training for the marathon itself, which is a way of improving one’s physical and psychological health...