Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the airwaves; it poured more than $1 million into TV ads during the spring legislative session. That has only energized backers of the ban. "If we can't stop them now, they're going to own the political system within a couple of years," said Richard Gergel, lead lawyer for the plaintiffs suing the industry in the supreme court case. Jennings, for one, says the industry is paying the price for reaching too far into gamblers' pockets. His renovated Victorian law office in Bennettsville stands across from a bingo hall with 20 video-poker machines. Its owners recently...
...there may be less to the China connection than meets the eye. Investigative sources tell TIME there's no evidence that anyone in the White House knew Chung was funneling money from Chinese sources or that Chung ever lobbied anyone about the transfer of satellite-launch technology. Chung's lawyer, Brian Sun, insists Liu never discussed satellites or waivers with Chung. At least part of their partnership concerned the prosaic business of trading auto parts and telephone equipment...
...standing outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Washington, gripping a bulging briefcase and waiting for his damn cell phone to ring. The reporters rushing past him on their way to the daily Monica stakeout, he knew, were missing out on a more important story. Zang is an antitrust lawyer for New York attorney general Dennis Vacco, and that briefcase bore a thick stack of documents ready to be filed by 20 states in uneasy tandem with the Justice Department's antitrust suit against the world's most powerful software company: Microsoft...
...METAPHOR] ROBERTA KATZ, lawyer for Netscape: "It's as if one of the networks was also producing the inner workings of the TV set, and every TV was wired so that that network...
...from her husband that implied he wanted to end the marriage. Family and friends have given conflicting accounts of the 11-year marriage. "They had a pattern of arguing at night, and he would go to sleep and everything would be OK in the morning," said Steven Small, a lawyer and close friend who represented the actor in his two divorces. Small said that when he asked about the marriage earlier this month, Hartman told him: "It's as good as it's been. It's working fine." "He was in therapy," Small said. "He was enjoying it and getting...