Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lopez, who says he is the first Chicano graduate of the Law School, practiced law in Los Angeles, Calif. for a time before returning to Cambridge to work as a writer...
...ungainly son of a local newspaper editor and his schoolteacher wife, Clark was an average student who did well in English and public speaking. He became a member of the campus Tory club while earning a B. A. in history at the University of Alberta, and studied law for a year before realizing how much more he enjoyed politics than jurisprudence. Clark returned to Alberta for an M. A. in political science and proceeded to become the most industrious of party drudges -chauffeuring local candidates, distributing flyers, ringing doorbells...
...Taimur, then 56, a paranoid tyrant who hoarded gold from oil revenues in the cellar of his ancient castle in Salalah because he believed paper currency was worthless. Under his medieval rule, slavery was sanctioned, and no one could travel abroad without his permission. It was against the law for an Omani to wear spectacles or ride a bicycle. In the whole country there were only two post offices, three miles of asphalt road, one 16-bed hospital and three primary schools. Air conditioning was unknown, even though the temperature frequently reaches 130° in summer...
...went broke in the Depression, Jones, 40, grew up in the city's segregated black ghetto because it was the only place where his family could afford to buy a home. Armed with a taste for politics and a sense of social justice, he got a night-school law degree from Georgetown University, gravitated to Lyndon Johnson's 1964 campaign, and wound up as the President's appointments secretary, one of the handful of White House staffers closest to L.B.J. Of that period he now says, "We created a lot of cynicism, both for those supposedly being...
...doctors are afraid that easy access by patients to their records may bring a rash of malpractice suits, but the American Medical Association discounts such fears. Strongly supporting congressional action, many consumer groups and pro fessional organizations like the American Medical Record Association are convinced that without a new law medical privacy stands in mortal jeopardy. In a decision that could have legal repercussions elsewhere, the Colorado Supreme Court in April tossed out indictments against two insurance companies that hired a Denver detective agency that allegedly trained employees to impersonate doctors and bribed hospital personnel to obtain medical records...