Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Bok declined to say exactly what tack the University would take (I'm just a poor labor lawyer and I really don't think I understand down-zoning legalities enough to explain them to you, he said), he did not exclude the possibility that the University might attempt to take the case to court, if the council should rule in favor of down-zoning in the next few weeks...
...responsible for the havoc wreaked in this film; her partner in adultery is little more than a good-looking schmuck only too willing to cave in to his carnal desires. And when, at the film's conclusion, Schneider is genuinely widowed and turns to her attorney for solace, the lawyer throws himself with a certain relish into an affirmation of the male's primacy, declaring that this is a man's world governed by laws written by men and for men. Such an outdated paean to the macho ethic confirms your suspicion that the dirty hands of the movie belong...
...observes: "The greatest problem facing the nation today is Carter's lack of experience." Neither Carter nor his aides, declares this fellow, had the vaguest idea what the Lance case was costing them, or how to resolve it, until in desperation Lance reached out and called in Lawyer Clark Clifford...
...private study and Jordan came in. The President told him about Lance's offer to step aside. Lance wanted only two things before the announcement was to be made: a further chance to convince his reluctant wife and time to work out a resignation letter with Lawyer Clifford. Jordan was relieved. On Wednesday the end unfolded rapidly but painfully for both Carter and Lance. Lance telephoned the President in the morning, reporting that LaBelle was still adamantly opposed to the resignation. She thought her husband had gained wide support and had fully vindicated himself. Carter asked Bert and LaBelle...
...always played off both friends and enemies against one another and thus set the stage for the power struggle now under way. In the first months after his death, it seemed that the longtime Summa insiders and his heirs would avoid strife. Chester Davis, the pugnacious Wall Street lawyer who masterminded Hughes' long and ultimately successful legal battle against the Eastern financial Establishment regarding alleged antitrust violations at TWA, suggested that the closest heir, Houston Lawyer Will Lummis, 48, become chairman of the Summa Corp. at $180,000 a year and co-administrator of the estate. But after Lummis...