Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monitoring station in the Sinai desert. First the Egyptian army band and honor guard marched smartly past the assembled officials and journalists. Israeli musicians and soldiers quickly followed. Then each band played for the guests, and played again. And again. And again. By the time an hour had passed, most spectators suspected something had gone wrong, and they were correct: after 17 months of negotiations, the two countries were still haggling over the language in the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty and its accompanying documents...
...many drawn-out legal battles, the only real winners are the lawyers. The parties get emotionally and financially drained; the lawyers get paid by the hour. But in the much ballyhooed case of Marvin vs. Marvin, the roles were, for once, reversed. Michelle Triola Marvin said she was happy because the judge awarded her $104,000 to "reeducate" herself and gain new skills. Ex-Boyfriend Lee Marvin said he was pleased too; he could have been nicked for $1.3 million if the judge had decided that Michelle Marvin was entitled to half of what he earned while the couple were...
...only apparent loser-apart from live-ins who may be sued in the future for re-education costs-was Michelle Marvin's flamboyant lawyer, Marvin Mitchelson. His contingency fee was a third of her award. Since Mitchelson claims to have spent about 5,000 hours working on the case, his fee works out to about $6.50 an hour. That will not get your lawn mowed in Beverly Hills...
Rather than take a cut of his client's judgment, Mitchelson, who normally charges at least $100 an hour, looked elsewhere to get his fees paid. Where? The state of California. Under a rarely applied California law, a court may require the state to pay attorneys' fees "in any action which has resulted in the enforcement of an important right affecting the public interest." The right in this case, of course, is to sue a live-in mate for "palimony." Local lawyers say chances are slim that the state will foot Mitchelson's bill. Even...
...although both NATO and the Pact voice sincere interest in the ongoing Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction talks. The situation is not imbalanced, as some would have us believe; neither side could attack, however improbable that might be, with any significant hope of success. Allegations of a Pact "48-hour blitzkrieg" attack, such as those suggested last year by Senators Nunn and Bartlett, have little basis in fact: indeed, recent war-gaming has reportedly indicated that after an outbreak of war the front in Central Europe would likely stabilize east of Vistula rather than west of the Rhine...