Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unlucky enough to be related to a comedian, there's no hope. You can't hide your stupidity all the time. In fact, you might as well start looking for a lawyer right now because soon the entire late-night television audience will hear exaggerated stories about the time you farted so loudly that your entire house collapsed...
...part in the burgeoning Iranscam investigations deepened McFarlane's depression. He has testified more fully than anyone else. But, says his lawyer Leonard Garment, "the more information he gave, the more he became an object of scrutiny." Another friend adds that "he is a loyal ((former)) Marine suddenly thrust into the role of John Dean," the Nixon White House Counsel whose Senate testimony fueled the Watergate scandal...
Such thinking played a significant role in the famous 1976 New Jersey Supreme Court case that permitted the Catholic parents of comatose Karen Ann Quinlan to have her respirator removed. The Quinlans' lawyer, Paul Armstrong, also a Catholic, was among the Boston conferees. He has noted that since the Quinlan ruling, many Americans have come to view kidney dialysis, cancer chemotherapy and the use of respirators as treatments that can be halted if they become too burdensome physically, emotionally and financially. When such methods are onerous and have a minimal chance of success, Catholic moral theologians term them "extraordinary," meaning...
...Jamail, the Houston lawyer who has become a Texas folk hero by championing Pennzoil's case, crowed about his latest triumph. Said Jamail: "I'm a happy man today. The judgment says that the conduct of Texaco management was guilty and malicious." Investors share his enthusiasm: Pennzoil stock rose 10 1/8, closing the week at 81 1/8, while Texaco shares fell...
...performance of Parsifal; at other times she says they met in the lobby of his Manhattan apartment building. Bing, whose mental acuity apparently started to decline seriously after his wife of 54 years died in 1983, began writing checks to Douglass. The spending caught the eye of Lawyer Paul Guth, a longtime associate whom Bing once designated to be in charge of his personal affairs in the event he became incapacitated. Concerned, Guth filed a petition to declare Bing incompetent; a legal guardian and conservator were appointed, and Bing's estimated assets of $900,000 were frozen...