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...Arizona, lawyers described her as a painstakingly careful attorney and a judge who ran her courtroom with taut discipline and a clear disdain for lawyers who had not done their homework. "She handled her work with a certain meticulousness, an eye for legal detail," recalled Phoenix Lawyer John Frank. Added John McGowan, another Phoenix attorney: "She's a very conscientious, very careful lawyer." Some defense lawyers, however, found O'Connor's strict demeanor on the bench so intimidating that they dubbed her "the bitch queen...
...superb historian, McCullough (The Path Between the Seas, The Johnstown Flood) has done his homework on everything affecting Teddy's early life...
...Bank of America. Yet when A.W. (Alden Winship) Clausen, 58, moved into the president's office of his latest assignment last Wednesday, he sounded properly cautious. Said the new leader of the $40 billion World Bank: "I'm not a hip-shooter. I do my homework...
...Mountie of American corporate chiefs: he always gets his man. This spring he was headhunting for a successor to Silverman. In May he had lunch with Tinker, whom he had never met, at Perino's in Los Angeles. "My impression was that Bradshaw was just doing his homework for his new job, getting the feel of the medium," Tinker recalled as he relaxed last week at the Hôtel La Voile d'Or on the French Riviera. "We had a relaxed, wide-ranging discussion that had nothing to do with jobs. I enjoyed meeting with...
Like the average American family, Shales watches more than 40 hours of television each week. "Some people knit and do their homework while they watch TV," he says. "I open my mail." But then he adds mildly: "After all, only about 2% of what's on is worth really watching." One can almost see a dyspeptic network executive, somewhere in Manhattan, reaching for his Maalox...