Word: hookups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While working in 1983 as an assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago probing corruption, Turow okayed the wiring of a Miami attorney turned informant. The hookup recorded conversations between the lawyer and a client then on trial in an unrelated case. This, declared the court, was "reprehensible." Currently in private practice, Turow angrily insists -- with the support of Chicago's U.S. Attorney -- that his decision was both proper and approved by higher-ups. The denouement to this real tale of tattle will take months to unwind...
...monthly American Lawyer showed 20 firms this year with gross revenues of $100 million- plus. Two years ago, just five were in that elite. The leader, 840-lawyer Skadden, Arps, had gross revenues of around $228 million. With offices in eight cities, its weekly partnership lunches require an audio hookup to link conference rooms...
...good fun must come to an end, however--or so thought one South Yard proctor who threatened to sent the author of the "voice" straight to the Ad Board, according to students. But to the proctor's chagrin, his own voice was sent, via the hookup, echoing across the Yard...
...national hookup provided evidence for another Bread Loaf belief: children will write freshly when given a new audience. Students in the tiny ranching community of Wilsall, Mont., began writing to children in Pittsburgh about farm life in winter. "Cows aren't smart enough to paw through the snow like horses, so you have to feed them," one child explained. A Sioux student on a reservation in South Dakota wrote candidly about what is happening to one branch of the tribe: "Life for the Lakota people is going in a downward direction . . . To control it would take great human power...
...especially immigrants who might want to call a loved one in a foreign land without having to fork over a fistful of quarters. At New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal, the going illegal rate is $2 to call anywhere in the U.S. and $4 for an overseas hookup...