Word: lawyering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush is a lawyer, so he knows I'm innocent until proven guilty," Wall replies. He is wrong, of course: Bush is not a lawyer, and Wall, although he seems to lack the venality of other players in the Keating affair, is not innocent. Like a number of other legislators and Government officials, Wall paid more attention to cosseting the people he regulated than to safeguarding the depositors and taxpayers who depended on his vigilance. Although Wall says | he now sees Keating's "half-truths and obfuscations," more than a billion was lost while he dithered over closing the vault...
...Amex Life Assurance Co. decided to award the money despite the Navy's conclusion that Hartwig may have engineered the blast to commit suicide. But the company disputes the claim by Truitt's lawyer that the payoff disproves the Navy's findings. Said a spokesman: "Amex is not saying that ((Hartwig)) did or did not commit suicide. What Amex is saying is that there is not enough evidence to deny a claim based on suicide...
...death of Lebanon's body politic, so often declared, may yet prove to have been (slightly) exaggerated. Last week, meeting in an abandoned air base at Qlaiaat in northern Lebanon, 58 aging Deputies of the country's parliament elected Rene Moawad, 64, a moderate Maronite Christian lawyer who enjoys the backing of Syria, to the presidency. The vote was a crucial step toward fulfilling the conditions of the peace plan brokered last month by the Arab League...
Harvard is not the only one to bring in multiple counsel on this case. Renehan says he expects that Merrill Lynch attorney Kathleen Comfrey, a lawyer at New York's Sherman and Sterling, will be joined by a member of a Boston firm sometime in the next few weeks...
...regressive because it does not apply to earnings over $48,000 per year. Nor does it apply to "unearned" income such as interest on bonds. Thus, Social Security takes a huge bite out of a minimum-wage janitor's paycheck, while it costs next to nothing for a lawyer with a six-figure salary or a Donald Trump who makes his money by shuffling assets...