Word: fairfaxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grimness, there is no real heavy in Yeomen of the Guard--the only out and out villain, the venal relative responsible for sending noble Colonel Fairfax to the Tower on a trumped-up charge of sorcery, never even appears. The plot complications arise instead from the ironic unfolding of two different schemes initiated by the forces of good...
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...Blessing of the Tools is a Labor Day tradition at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Fairfax Station, Va., and this year the man who had come to do the honor was the Pope's ambassador to U.S. Catholicism. For Archbishop Jean Jadot, who logs more air miles than President Ford, it was a typical visit to small-town America. Jadot has given a speech in Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House (saying a few good words for country music), climbed aboard a corn combine during a rural-life conference in Iowa, and said Mass...
...when Lewis and Ruth Goldfarb wanted to buy a new $54,500 house in a development in Fairfax County, Va., they needed to have a title search done by a lawyer. Since the title had been searched less than a year before by the developer, the new check involved no more than a few hours of work, but every lawyer who replied to the Goldfarbs' inquiries (20 in all) said the job would cost more than $500-based on the minimum rate fixed by the local bar's fee schedule. Goldfarb decided to sue. Last week the Supreme...
Brushing aside the Fairfax County bar's contention that its price list was merely advisory, Chief Justice Warren Burger found that "the fee schedule was enforced through the prospect of professional discipline from the state bar. [A] naked agreement was clearly shown, and the effect on prices is plain." Such naked agreements were long common in bar associations; 34 states once had some kind of minimum fee schedule covering legal services. But in recent years the number has dropped to 18, as lawyers began to worry that they might indeed be subject to antitrust laws. The traditional theory...