Word: lawyer
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...determined to distill the shale above ground, instead of underground, which is the cheaper and less environmentally--destructive method. Technologists in the Bureau of Mines have estimated that shale oil can be distilled underground for less than a dollar a barrel, but, in the words of one Justice Department lawyer, "The world oil cartel fears that the cheap production of oil from coal, or shale oil distilled underground, might bring about a reduction in price...
Despite all of the mayor's campaign gaffes and his administration's scandals, few people are willing to predict that Singer will topple Daley in patronage-padded Chicago. The reasons were succinctly stated by Jack Guthman, a lawyer and Daley stalwart: "The precinct captains work late in the campaign." Indeed, the machine still controls 44 of Chicago's 50 wards. As the primary neared, Daley organization workers were canvassing door-to-door to deliver him enough votes to win the Feb. 25 primary, which would virtually guarantee victory in the April election over a token Republican candidate...
...U.M.W.'s contract demands for the membership before the union began its bargaining sessions with the coal operators. Most significantly, however, the Journal has taken to printing dissenting opinion in a "Rank & File Speaks" feature and the letters column. Says Joseph Rauh Jr., Miller's lawyer during the election: "One of the happiest days of my life was when I saw a letter in the Journal in praise of Boyle. Not that I feel any sympathy for the guy. Far from that, but because it's such an expression by the union of belief in free speech...
...secrets; so prosecution under the Official Secrets Acts or on other grounds would be difficult. Besides, during last year's election campaign Wilson had vowed he would narrow the Official Secrets Acts and make government processes more open. The night before the first Grossman installment appeared, a government lawyer did call the Sunday Times to complain that the paper "wasn't playing the game," but there has been no action...
Parent has been taking good care of himself ever since. His lawyer is presently renegotiating his current $ 150,000-a-year, five-year contract with the Flyers for a deal that could provide financial security for life. Meanwhile Parent, Carol and their three young children are already living well with a five-bedroom $95,000 colonial house in suburban Cherry Hill, N.J., and a comfortable four-bedroom rented house on the Atlantic shore at Wildwood, N.J., where the Parents keep a 33-ft. Egg Harbor boat that he uses for deep-sea fishing. When he is not angling, Parent...