Word: crookedness
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"It's a wide-open ball game for exploitation," says Attorney Peter Larrabee, a former officer for the Immigration and Naturalization Service who is head of the A.I.L.A.'s San Diego chapter. "There is an enormous amount to be made if you're crooked." Five lawyers have been convicted or...
| -- Crooked, or asymmetrical, facial expressions are usually deceitful (see box).
The commission staff study urged more active pursuit of corrupt Mob lawyers, calling for extensive use of electronic surveillance and in some cases even - undercover agents to root out the crooked lawyers. A somewhat stepped-up attack has already begun. One catch was Philadelphia Lawyer Kevin Rankin, who discussed his...
Journalese is rich in mystic nouns: gentrification, quichification, greenmail, dealignment, watershed elections and apron strings (the political coattails of a female candidate). But students of the language agree that adjectives do most of the work, smuggling in actual information under the guise of normal journalism. Thus the use of soft...
Toy marketeers seem to have guessed right in determining what would sell. Fisher-Price, the toymaking subsidiary of Quaker Oats, teamed up with Kodak to produce a new child's camera that sells for $25 to $44. In its viewfinder is an indicator that shows a red flag if...