Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knowledgeable men around Washington who say the best presidential practitioners in foreign policy were Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. Ike learned power commanding the Allied forces in Europe. Nixon studied the world and its leaders during his 16 years of global wanderings as the Vice President and a lawyer...
Though his wife was in charge of family finances, Rabin was co-signer on the account, and. he conceded, "the responsibility was mine as much as hers." A lawyer for the couple also said that the Rabins had been unaware that a foreign account such as theirs had to be closed within a reasonable time after their return to Israel...
HAVE YOU HUGGED YOUR CHILD TODAY?, Brill and her colleagues occasionally find themselves acting as advocates for children against their own parents. One lawyer represented a six-year-old boy who had been neglected by his mother; though the court ruled that the parent could keep the child, a program of supervision was set up to discourage future mistreatment. Occasionally there are heartening successes: a youth injured while chasing a purse snatcher turned out to be a former purse snatcher himself, rehabilitated through clinic-inspired counseling and work programs...
...pleasant residential Yale colleges, a consignment of psychoactive substances equivalent to the consciousness-altering contents of Thompson's kit bag as described in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (enough to remove the convolutions from all the mammalian grey matter in Wyoming), two commemorative stamps, the services of a lawyer who knows federal and Connecticut narcotics regulations like the back of his hand, and much, much more. In short, if you've got the cash, you can't afford...
This comedy was written by a Harvard-educated lawyer and first presented in 1906. The play is surprisingly un-spavined by age. It is the genre to which it belongs that has disappeared. Social comedy based on the code of an assured upper class has withered away with the democratization of that class and the loss of its role as the arbiter of manners...