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...pact coordinates the efforts of Fannie Mae; the International Finance Corporation; BankBoston, and the Boston law firm of Day, Berry and Howard. The corporations will advise all interested parties on establishing a mortgage system...
Professor Vagts recalled that Loss found it ironic that he held the William Nelson Cromwell chair, since the money for the chair was contributed by the partners of a law firm which had refused to hire Loss because he was Jewish...
WASHINGTON: Talk about brazen: "The government got what it wanted, knowing full well what the consequences would be" ? thus spake Richard J. Urowsky, attorney for software giant Microsoft, as the browser battle picked up where it left off in December. Clearly, the firm's lawyers have lost none of their chutzpah in the intervening month ? at one point Urowsky claimed that Microsoft, that poor lost soul, was caught between contrary unbundling orders from the DOJ and the court. Even the judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson, had to raise his eyebrows at that. "Microsoft came across as very abrasive," says Netly News...
...cars; it's just the driving they can't stand. "Driving and habitual road rage have become virtually inseparable," says Leon James, a professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii who specializes in the phenomenon. In the most comprehensive national survey on driving behavior so far, a Michigan firm, EPIC-MRA, found that an astounding 80% of drivers are angry most or all of the time while driving. Simple traffic congestion is one cause of irritation, but these days just about anything can get the average driver to tap his horn. More than one-third of respondents...
...competition but still bound together, in charge of the same pot of gold. Now one of them is going under the hot lights, giving them all a new reason to be nervous. Brown & Williamson Tobacco was the "unindicted co-conspirator" in the guilty plea Wednesday of a California biotech firm called DNAP, which was convicted of breeding high-nicotine tobacco plants (illegal under U.S. law) and smuggling seeds out of the country to be farmed in Brazil...