Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yesterday, the University's legal counsel-the Boston firm of Ropes and Gray-went with the Center personnel to the police station. The firm's presence, according to a Harvard dean, was part...
...good relations with the mine owners than in fighting for tougher mine safety laws. To cover anyone who might feel left out. Nader directed more than 100 students ("Nader's Raiders" in the Washington parlance) who spent the summer investigating several government agencies and one famous Washington law firm...
...judge's failure to remove himself from cases in which he may have had a financial interest. Led by Indiana's Birch Bayh, liberal committee members charged Haynsworth with conflict of interest for not disqualifying himself from a 1963 trial involving the Textile Workers Union and a firm that did business with a vending-machine company in which he had a one-seventh interest...
Leading Questions. The worst was yet to come. A London scandal sheet reported that the firm tentatively contacted -but not actually hired-to do the "scientific" matching was a fly-by-night, husband-wife outfit operating out of a one-room office next to a fish-and-chips shop, apparently without even the benefit of a computer. The firm's "managing director" offered samples of questionnaires he had used in previous matchmaking schemes. Typical inquiries included: "Do you consider yourself sexy?" "Do you consider sex important?" "Have you a very strong sexual urge?" "Are you against premarital relationships...
...official, Justin M. Gray, currently assistant to the City Manager for Community Development, will became an M.I.T. faculty member in the Urban Studies and Planning Department. In addition, he and three members of his office who are leaving with him will found a private consulting firm in Cambridge...