Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Wedtech set its sights on a multimillion-dollar Army contract for 6- h.p. engines in 1981, for instance, San Francisco Attorney E. Robert Wallach was hired as a Wedtech consultant. Wallach, an old friend and lawyer of then Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese's, was allegedly given some $500,000 worth of company stock over several years in addition to a retainer for his services. For several months Wallach sent detailed memos to Meese concerning Wedtech's efforts to win the engine contract...
Family members and associates of the accused embassy guards insist that military investigators have vastly exaggerated the espionage charges. "They are convinced they've got a major Russian spy on their hands," said one kinsman. "What they've got is a horny Marine." In Santa Ana, Calif., Lawyer Michael Sheldon, who had earlier represented Weirick on a drunk-driving charge, said the accused spy "certainly didn't seem to be a man of great means. He paid his fees on the slow-fee plan. Sometimes he missed a payment...
Dumping is a topic that only an international trade lawyer could love. The basic concept is simple enough: dumping is selling a product for less than the cost of making it. That has been a world-trade problem ever since mass production made it easy for companies, inadvertently or otherwise, to turn out more goods than customers want. When stuck with anything from too many dolls to excess semiconductors, manufacturers often sell the products in other countries at very cheap prices rather than throw them away...
...place are suddenly carried away and beds that have always been sturdy cave in. Following the dinner fiasco, the rest of the night is spent in a California-freeway car chase with Nadia's homicidal ex-boyfriend David (John Larroquette), who also happens to be a trial lawyer...
Also mentioned by several sources as a strongminority candidate is former U.S. TransportationSecretary William T. Coleman Jr. Coleman, now apracticing lawyer and a member of the Harvard'sBusiness School Visiting Committee, was highlyplaced in past searches for Corporation members...