Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time that Kennedy and Johnson installed the taping equipment in the White House, it was not illegal to record a conversation if one of the people voluntarily consented to it," says Zelikow, a former trial lawyer. "We have this unique period in a sense between 1962 and 1973 when thousands of hours of deliberations of the most powerful government in the world were being tape recorded in real time...
...private homes, nor do they have to observe constitutional niceties like Miranda warnings. An 1873 Supreme Court decision held that bounty hunters may pursue a defendant "into another State; may arrest him on the Sabbath; and, if necessary, may break and enter his house for that purpose." Says Arizona lawyer Gary Klahr: "In Phoenix, it's harder now to repossess a car--you're supposed to alert the police first--than it is to repossess a human being...
...like her photograph. Bounty hunters handcuffed her, and thus began a five-day escapade that ended with Mason's being turned over to the sheriff in Tuscaloosa, Ala. When she turned out to be the wrong person, the bondsman gave her a $24 bus ticket back home, says her lawyer David Breitbart...
...lawyer I have to be stuck in law," Angelopoulos-Daskalaki told the Associated Press Saturday in response to questions about her plans. "For the moment, it's not the bidding committee, it's not the organizing committee-it's just in between...
While violence tightens the deadlock in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, there appears to be some progress on the Israel-Syria front (TIME Daily) ... The Democratic Party's top lawyer has defended Al Gore's controversial White House fundraising phone calls (AllPolitics) ... A budget bill provision that was effectively funding the tobacco industry has been struck down (TIME Daily) ...Rocky Actor Burgess Meredith has died at the age of 89 (TIME Daily) ... Former Clinton cabinet member Mike Espy has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges ... (Reuters) ... As for Clinton himself, what has he learned in four-and-a-half years about...