Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They've been part of that community for 50 years, and I think they've been handled pretty severely and unfairly by the License Commission," said David A. Wylie, the society's lawyer...
...prosperous New Jersey suburbs and so would not have faced a desperate economic predicament if they had a child. Their material well-being aside, they were also apparently happy, successful, likable kids. Amy was a talented artist and worked at a ymca camp last summer--"a dream daughter," her lawyer said. Brian was co-captain of the high school soccer team and on the varsity golf team. "He was popular--he had a lot of friends," says Brian Thalmann, who went to Ramapo High School with the couple. "She was nice too. No one can believe these are the same...
Peterson, though, hid out for a few days with his parents, who are divorced, before turning himself in last Thursday morning. His lawyer, Joseph Hurley, had announced this ahead of time, and a huge crowd of reporters and onlookers greeted Peterson. Someone jeered, "Baby killer!" and Peterson's distraught mother cried, "I want to go with him! I want to go with...
What the FBI did to Jewell was investigate him. What the media did was report on the investigation. Unlike me, Jewell was never arrested; he was not indicted on information the FBI knew or should have known was false; he was not required to hire a criminal lawyer to defend himself at trial for fees he could never pay. And he will never be asked to explain why he was acquitted by the jury or why he was ever indicted in the first place. These are questions potential employers ask. The answers are not easy to explain. I think Jewell...
...such explicit quid pro quos. At the time, party co-chair Don Fowler said, "The President is concerned about certain appearances of marketing the presidency." But some contributors say Marvin Rosen, the Democratic Party's finance chairman, has privately resumed the practice. Donors tell TIME that Rosen, a Miami lawyer, recited a laundry list of benefits to the big-money contributors he met in New York City and elsewhere. For $100,000, they say, Rosen has said a giver can get a short meeting with the President in the White House; $10,000 to $50,000 would earn a dinner...