Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary William Simon, Interior Secretary Thomas Kleppe, Transportation Secretary William Coleman and Attorney General Edward Levi will leave early in a new Ford Administration -or perhaps before it even begins. Because Ford tends to promote from within, possible candidates for Cabinet posts include James Baker, 46, the unflappable Houston lawyer who smoothly ran Ford's election campaign, and Richard Cheney, 35, the diligent White House chief of staff. But Ford, who likes to be surrounded by friends, may be slow to strengthen his own White House staff, which on the whole is weak and loaded with old cronies...
...Frank Freidel, 60, who wrote one of the working papers prepared to stimulate discussion, suggested stamina and youth as helpful qualities. "Younger leaders are readier to venture in the dark. They haven't had their teeth knocked out as yet, and they are ready to take chances." Washington Lawyer Lewis Engman, 40, head of the Federal Trade Commission under Nixon, agreed: "One constant is the willingness to take risks, to row the boat out beyond the shore without the assurance that you will be able to get back...
...later years he mellowed. Earlier he was very anti-education. He threw me down the stairs of his office when I told him that I wanted to go to college. He thought it was a waste of time, unless you wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer...
Frank Upham, the lawyer who handled the case for the state, said yesterday, "Brigham's tried to rip off the customer by claiming that it was really a little guy" but added that Bic's "got screwed" because other stores in the Harvard Square area do exactly the same thing...
...authors' and creators' side in almost every instance." To clear up lingering or future royalty inequities, a five-member presidential commission will be created. Does all this resolution of old confusions refute Twain's cynicism? Well, perhaps not. James Fitzpatrick, a full-time copyright lawyer who represents the Recording Industry Association of America, among others, was recently asked whether his workload would now decline since the lobbying battle is over. He did not hesitate. "It's clear," he said ominously, "that I'll continue to be occupied...