Word: countryman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have few marketable skills and thus enter the work force at the lowest levels. Often they have only the most basic of business instincts -- including imitation. In one of the quirks of assimilation, many Cambodians in Southern California have gone into the doughnut business, following the lead of a countryman whose success at the trade was widely publicized; some 500 doughnut shops in Los Angeles County are owned or operated by Cambodians...
Judge Arthur Sherman '50 ordered that court records indicate that Robert F. Burns of East Boston and Lawrence R. Countryman '83 of Cambridge admitted only to misdemeanor charges of lewd and lascivious behavior...
Burns, who initially faced felony charges of open and gross lewdness as well as indecent assault and battery, was fined $500 in court costs. Countryman, who was only charged with open and gross lewdness charge, was fined $400 in court costs. Neither man had a previous criminal record, court officials said...
According to court papers, Robert F. Burns of East Boston and Lawrence R. Countryman '83 of Cambridge have not admitted to the lewdness charges. Their cases are scheduled for trial on March 16, court officials said...