Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shah of Iran) as for its skilled surgical staff. The scandal was the second in just four weeks to engulf the medical center. In March the hospital admitted to having provided inadequate care for 18-year-old Libby Zion, the daughter of Sidney Zion, a locally prominent journalist-lawyer. She died March 5, 1984, less than eight hours after being admitted with a high fever and earache. A grand jury charged that hospital staffers gave her the wrong medication and woefully neglected her care...
...sell the drugs and had set up a corporation named Simian Expansions to launder the money. Buettner-Janusch pleaded not guilty in the trial which followed, a large part of his defense resting on character witnesses who testified to his brilliance and untarnished reputation. During the trial his lawyer, Jules Ritholtz, hypothesized that Jolly himself could have planted the samples of LSD and Quaaludes...
...John Parker, an aspiring lawyer from Tobsfield, said his last starring role was six years ago, as the Bionic Man in a sixth grade play...
...FIRST dream I am a Lawyer. My client is an innocent man accused of murder. He's on the stand, being grilled by the opposing attorney who is facing me with his eyes closed, caressing his chin in dramatic silence, weighing carefully his next move. His face cringes suddenly into a terrible scowl, and he swings his body violently toward my client...
...negotiations continued through Thursday. Between meetings with Pennzoil, DeCrane and Kinnear were huddling with their team of advisers, including Boies, Investment Banker Donald Brennan of Morgan Stanley, and Gibson Gayle, a lawyer with the Houston firm of Fulbright & Jaworski. Several members of Texaco's board of directors hastily flew to Houston, among them Robert Beck, former chairman of Prudential Insurance, and Frank Cary, former IBM chairman. Other directors, including Thomas Murphy, chairman of Capital Cities/ABC, went to Texaco's White Plains headquarters to join the talks via conference calls. All week long board members debated whether or not the company...