Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question matters because Dubus insists that actions, however dumb or careless, create moral consequences. Someone is to blame for wife and child battering, for drug abuse, for racial hatred, for crime, for the sense of dread that is "loose in the land." In Land Where My Fathers Died, a lawyer in a small Massachusetts town takes on the case of a man accused of murdering a local physician. Archimedes Nionakis knows that his client is innocent. He also realizes that in trying to find the real killer, "I was going to confront nothing as pure and recognizable as evil...
...months. Current Owners William Franke and John Prentis sought $15 million in industrial revenue bonds to finance a new building, buy presses and meet operating costs, luring investors with the promise that if the paper defaulted, they could deduct the loss from their state taxes. But a local lawyer said the bail...
...reading of Enrile's life suggests that the Defense Minister burns with a desire for recognition more powerful than most. Born 62 years ago in northern Luzon, Enrile was the illegitimate son of a poor village girl. At 21 he finally met his father, a well-to-do Manila lawyer who had only recently learned of the boy's existence. Subsequently Enrile studied law at the University of the Philippines, where he mingled with the Filipino elite. His classmates included Vice President Laurel, whose father had been President during the Japanese occupation of World War II, and Cabinet Executive Secretary...
Some months ago, he made a deal which he believed was in the best interests of his constituents. He got the White House to support a liberal activist Seattle lawyer for a federal judgeship in return for his support of a White House backed judicial candidate of questionable qualifications who would serve in a different part of the country...
...Jennifer is really one of the mainstays of the program," Butterfield says. "She's active in all levels--she helps to train paralegals, she's on the search committee which is choosing a new lawyer--she's really involved in all aspects...