Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what makes last week's spectacle truly rich is that the President doesn't have to make excuses for Ryan or Williams. And as a lawyer, he doesn't even have to parse the legal delicacies of their actions. Based on what has come out so far, nothing they did that day or the next in the White House appears to have broken the law. What's more, when Vice President Al Gore sat in his office calling up businessmen whose careers and companies depended in part on decisions the White House could make, urging them to support his party...
Reno didn't want to come right out and say so, for fear of looking like the President's personal defense lawyer. So she resorted to smoke signals at her press conference last week and hoped someone would...
Although Silverman was educated as a lawyer, he gravitated to the more treacherous world of dealmaking, cutting his teeth with Wall Street's Blackstone Group in the merger mania of the 1980s. There he was involved in dozens of corporate deals. But don't look for his name in the headlines: he shies away from New York City's mogul madness. As one of his staff says, "He is not part of the scene. You will never see him on Page Six [the New York Post gossip page]. He is focused on business...
Like many current and former Northeast workers interviewed by TIME, some of them whistle blowers and others just quietly disgusted, Galatis is convinced that despite appearances, nothing has changed at Northeast or the NRC. Galatis' lawyer, Ernest Hadley, has filed a new petition on behalf of a Millstone engineer named Al Cizek, alleging more wrongdoing and calling on the NRC to suspend Millstone's license if Northeast racks up more safety violations. These skeptics believe the NRC's new vigilance is mostly for show. As evidence, they point to a February working lunch between Northeast's Kenyon...
Westin's appointment came as a surprise to many in the news division. While both NBC and CBS have recently opted for news presidents with substantial producing experience (CBS's Andrew Heyward and NBC's Andrew Lack are both former newsmagazine producers), Westin is a lawyer who joined ABC in 1991 as general counsel. He moved up quickly, becoming head of the network's in-house production units and then president of the network, overseeing news, sports, entertainment and other operations. Yet Westin, caught between strong division chiefs and his immediate superior, Iger, found his duties constricted, and he jumped...