Word: law
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both 42, dote on their son Jonathan, 4. "And there's maybe 30 minutes every day," says Ron, "when we don't discuss having another child. But where would the extra minutes come from?" Lynne runs the red-hot Manhattan Theater Club; Ron is a partner in a midsize law firm. They live in a home where the telephone cords stretch into every room, and the nanny starts work at 7:30 a.m. "You can imagine what getting out the door in the morning is like," says Ron. Are there regrets? He ponders, "Can we take the added pressure that...
...seiji, or money politics, and the way Japan conducts its public business. On one level the issue is simple bribery. Recruit's mercurial founder, Hiromasa Ezoe, 52, nine other businessmen and three officials of the Labor and Education ministries have been arrested for alleged bribery or violation of securities law (so far no charges have been filed against any elected politician). But on another level the question is whether Japanese politics is so blatantly suffused with the passing of cash that it is practically impossible for officeholders to avoid the appearance, if not the actual commission, of impropriety. Said Takako...
These practices do not necessarily violate Japanese law. But Recruit may have overstepped legal limits -- and certainly drew attention to the pervasive role of money in Japanese politics...
...month later Eduardo Legorreta Chauvert, a top businessman with ties to the Salinas government, was jailed on charges of stock fraud. What La Quina, Legorreta and Felix Gallardo have in common is that they are renowned for using patronage and corruption to put themselves beyond the reach of the law. By tackling such formidable figures head on, Salinas has given notice that he is willing to uproot the status quo to enforce his policies. "There is not a single taboo that remains in place," says Luis Rubio, head of the Mexico City-based Research Center for Development. "Nothing is unthinkable...
...prime suspect in the 1985 abduction and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Many DEA agents wondered why it took so long to capture Felix Gallardo, since he had been living openly in Guadalajara. Some suspected that his arrest had been timed to coincide with last week's "law-enforcement summit" between U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Alvarez del Castillo...