Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dalton, 46, is a wealthy lawyer who followed his father, Ted, a popular Republican state senator, into the legislature in 1966. But it is the controversial Howell who has been the primary issue in the campaign. As a state legislator in the '60s. Howell successfully fought to abolish the poll tax and to establish one-man, one-vote representation. He worked to pass consumer legislation and plug tax loopholes. This year, as a candidate, he is calling for the restoration of the 100 phone call (it costs 200 to use a pay phone in Virginia), collective bargaining for public employees...
...They have a lot of potential power and certainly can influence a lawyer's career," Burke said...
...Boston-area lawyer who has tried cases in several district and superior courts, and who asked not to be identified, said yesterday, "This applies to every court, you know, the buddy system." His description of the clerk's powers was the same as Burke...
...fighting over money with a former spouse. Charged with being $11,150 behind in alimony payments to his third wife, Susan Classman Bellow, the Nobel prizewinning author was sentenced to ten days in jail last week by a Chicago circuit court judge. According to his ex-wife's lawyer, Bellow, 62, earned over $450,000 last year. He has posted a $55,000 bond in order to gain time to appeal the decision. "There's no way in hell he'll ever see the inside of a jail. That would be indecorous," says Bellow's attorney...
...seems to be trying to make both his characters and their vague movement realistic. He almost succeeds, and despite the novel's wild premise the reader begins to take Booth and his compatriots seriously. One member of the group, Bruce Parmentier, joined the movement after several years as a lawyer. He began his career as a public prosecutor in a small New Jersey town, but quit the job when he found that he no longer wanted to jail the people he was prosecuting...