Word: firm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against Webb Hubbell, charged with tax fraud in April, after Starr failed to get the former First Friend to assist him in the Arkansas phase of his investigation. Starr had leaned on Hubbell, who had already spent time in jail for bilking clients and partners at the Rose Law Firm, to give up anything he may know about Mrs. Clinton's legal work in questionable Arkansas real estate deals. He was her former law partner...
...with less than two months of lawmaking left before Congress adjourns to run for re-election, there is also plenty to fight about. Democrats are firm that patients be allowed to sue their health plans, an idea that Republicans and their business constituents find heretical. The House Republican bill contains a few land mines of its own, such as medical savings accounts (a risky experiment, Democrats say, and a sop to G.O.P. campaign contributors) and limits on malpractice awards (which the Democrats and their trial-lawyer allies warn would prevent the injured from recovering what they are due). Says Republican...
...stock to climb $3.875 a share, to $48.437, last week, still well off its 12-month high of $60.50 a year ago. "We're getting into a normal production situation," says Ron Woodard, president of Boeing's commercial-airplane group. Notes analyst Peter Jacobs of the Ragen MacKenzie investment firm: "They appear to be working their way out of their problems...
Impressive as all that is, some critics doubt that the transformation alone will have much impact on Boeing's bottom line. Wolfgang Demisch, a managing director of the investment firm BT Alex. Brown, calls Boeing "hugely overstaffed" and ridicules its price war with Airbus. "The commercial-aircraft industry should be enormously profitable because it is a fortress franchise," Demisch says. He argues that with just two manufacturers selling to about 450 airlines, "I see no reason at all why prices [of planes] are as bad as they are. Neither competitor has any real notion of price discipline...
Susannah B. Tobin '00, a classics concentrator in Lowell House, is splitting her time between interning at a law firm and working as a research assistant to a professor of English. She still hopes to teach someday...