Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Serge Klarsfeld, a French Jewish lawyer who as a youngster hid in a closet listening to the Gestapo torture the neighbor's children, argues that sending innocent people to ovens is no common crime...
...Amaros' owners (most teams have two), Dave Rubin, is co-director of the Center for War, Peace and the News Media at New York University. There are editors and writers for TIME, Newsweek, GQ, Fairchild Publications and Random House, as well as a couple of authors and a lawyer. Disparate as their personalities may be, each of the owners holds two truths to be self-evident: he can run a team better than the lords of baseball, and each of his rival owners is a conniving fool...
...most common swindles involves notaries public who pass themselves off as influential officials. In Spanish-speaking countries, a notario publico is a man of influence, nearly equivalent to a lawyer. Many illegals learn only after parting with their money that a U.S. notary is usually nothing more than a witness to a signature. Notaries can lose their licenses if they are convicted of such misrepresentation. "The new law," says Texas Assistant Attorney General LaMonte Freerks, "is a growth industry in rip-offs...
Despite such difficulties, some enterprising Soviets are building sizable illegal businesses with the law's unintended help. During the trial period, a 32-year-old lawyer named Sasha expanded his modest, one-man costume-jewelry business. Since selling in public is no longer illegal, he arranged for three friends to go to work for him. They took over sales, while Sasha commissioned two part-time jewelers to manufacture the product. That amounted to the illegal hiring of workers, but the profits kept everybody happy...
...rubles for Sasha as the "organizer." (Marx called Sasha's profit the "surplus value" and considered it to be the essence of capitalist exploitation.) Sasha says that in an average month he earns about 800 rubles ($1,200), far more than his 150- ruble ($225) monthly salary as a lawyer. "I am a biznesmen," he says with a grin, using a word Russian has borrowed from English...