Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rajiv, 30, an Indian Airlines commander who is married to an Italian and has two children, and Sanjay, 28, also married and an industrialist who has designed and produced an Indian compact car named "Maruti" (Tempest). Both Rajiv and Sanjay are products of Indira's marriage to Parsi Lawyer Feroze Gandni>, who died...
...American Psychiatric Association has reported that "at least 90% of those in state and county mental hospitals are not dangerous to themselves or others." Bruce J. Ennis, a civil liberties lawyer who argued the Donaldson case, adds, "Most of them are just old. They are homeless, penniless, friendless and maybe not too smart." Many will not want to leave and will remain as voluntary patients. In other cases, authorities may now decree that patients are dangerous or simply unable to "live safely in freedom." Still, there will be new pressure to release large numbers, if only because better treatment will...
...Harvard-trained lawyer who had a corporate practice in Grand Rapids, Engman was appointed to the FTC chairmanship in 1973. The Nixon White House evidently wanted a reliably controllable chairman to replace prickly, independent Miles W. Kirkpatrick, who revived the long calcified FTC as a trade watchdog and riled the business community with his emphasis on consumer protection. But instead of taming the FTC, Engman stepped up its activity. Hardly a week passes that the 1,600-man agency does not announce some new rule, investigation or lawsuit. Its principal targets have been monopoly, unfair influence, industrial or professional conspiracy...
...Lawyer Engman does not use the term conspiracy lightly. He means it in its strict antitrust sense. Engman's FTC has been quick-too quick, some business critics say-to deploy the key weapon that the commission shares with the Justice Department: the power to press antitrust charges. To date, Engman's legal staff has brought no fewer than 31 antitrust suits, most notably its 1973 complaint against Exxon and seven other big U.S. oil companies. The FTC's argument: the firms control so much of the petroleum business-from wellhead through refinery to gasoline pump-that...
...Everyone has to go some time," sighs the condemned man. "I have to go at 6 a.m. It was 5 a.m., but I have a good lawyer...