Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that and hear them tell me who called whom and who did what. And you're telling me I shouldn't be allowed to hear those people?" Others were adamant about not playing hanky-panky with the rules. "I ain't a scholar, and I ain't no constitutional lawyer," Montana conservative Conrad Burns declared. "I'm a cattle auctioneer. And the reason I'm concerned is, our forefathers put impeachment in the Constitution because they knew the aristocracy had to be accountable to the people. Equal justice under the law. If those words aren't true anymore, then...
...White House argued through the week that it would be unfair for the Senate to proceed with a trial in which the Senators made up the rules as they went along. On Friday, when every last one of the 45 Democrats voted for a plan that does precisely that, lawyer Greg Craig said tersely that the White House "respected" the Senate's decision...
During his years in office, Rowe, a Washingtonnative who had once been NBC's top lawyer in thecity, set his sights on America's capital, makingHarvard a formidable influence in thecongressional world. Under Rowe's guidance, theUniversity fought for--and often won on--issues asvaried as continuing affirmative action andincreasing federal funding for scientificresearch...
...discrete appeal to the Joint Committee was foreclosed on Dec. 29, 1997, not by any process of the Committee but by letter from Anne Taylor, General Counsel of Harvard University. She informed Peter's lawyer, Matt Feinberg, that she had thoroughly investigated Peter's case and found no evidence of abuse of process to warrant consideration by the Joint Committee. Additionally, she told Feinberg that she did this investigation personally and made the decision that our complaint would not be considered by the Committee. In fact, so far as Peter and Matt Feinberg and I can tell based...
...critical questions for any woman who tests positive. Should she undertake a pre-emptive strike against possible cancer with radical measures like mastectomy and chemotherapy? And if so, will insurers pick up the tab? In the absence of any firm reimbursement policies, says Dr. Ellen Clayton, a pediatrician and lawyer at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., "I think you'd have to be nuts to let anybody know [about these genes...