Word: firm
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...Williams & Connolly, David Kendall's firm, says Ruth, "they litigate every case the same way, and that's hardball. Give 'em nothing, tell 'em nothing, delay, fight at every turn. But when you're defending the President, you can't run a defense like you would for a private citizen," he says. Result: "Just like in the White House, after all the attacks, the prosecutor gets his own bunker mentality and starts to figure, O.K., this is a war." And by the time the White House began attacking Starr for zealotry and moonlighting and hiring aggressive deputies, Starr felt...
Never before have stocks been so important a form of wealth for so many Americans, whether they hold shares directly or through mutual funds and 401(k) accounts. Forty-three percent of adult Americans hold stocks, the broadest ownership ever. And Chris Varvares, president of the forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers, traces more than one-third of the growth of consumer spending last year directly to the wealth effect. Economists calculate that investors tend to spend about 4 [cents] of every dollar they gain in stock-market wealth...
Pullman, 36, has been working this area since the early '90s, first for investment firm Gruntal and then in partnership with Fahnestock & Co. Last month he shook off those names and set up the Pullman Group to chase celebrity bonds in a big way and, he hopes, brand himself as the top name in this esoteric field. He and others say the bonds will ultimately extend to all sorts of intellectual property that generates a steady stream of income: patents, authors' royalties and writers' residuals from TV reruns and film libraries...
...proto-form of the motorcycle was simply a velocipede with a steam-engine jammed in it, made in France in 1868. The first true serial production bike, with which the Guggenheim show begins, was made in 1894 by the German firm of Hildebrand & Wolfmuller; its enormous engine--1,489 cc, the biggest that would be fitted to a production machine until the 1980s--chugged it along at 30 m.p.h. Motorcycle technology advanced so quickly under the spell of the fin-de-siecle obsession with heroic speed that only 13 years later, in 1907, the future aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss...
...this week may be even worse. For starters, he'll be spending at least two days with a pack of federal prosecutors, who will grill him on Wednesday and Thursday about Microsoft's alleged anticompetitive practices. He'll also spend some of the week batting back accusations that the firm's new Windows 98 operating system was "undercooked" and rushed to market before it was ready. Though the software has been selling briskly, critics have been compiling an increasingly lengthy list of bugs in the program. Gates, typically, is ready on both fronts with Microsoft's new "gentle" strategy...