Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wright's lawyer, William C. Oldaker, called that "doublespeak" and said "it's one of the most outra geous readings of legislative history" he has seen. Overall, the report contains "a lot of noise, a lot of clamoring, but very little substance," he said...
City Councillor David E. Sullivan, the only lawyer other than Walsh on the council, said Walsh had not talked with him about the idea of borrowing money from the University. But he said that such a plan was probably not the best solution to the hospital's fiscal woes...
Aesthetics often dictates against hyphenation. Says a Washington lawyer representing small businesses who was born Joel Rothstein and is married to a woman named Wolfson: "Rothstein-Wolfson is four syllables and 16 letters. Names get massacred enough. Wolfson becomes Wilson. Rothstein becomes Rothson. You can imagine what people would have done with the two together." But could they come up with a workable union of surnames without resorting to hyphens? "It was important for our kid's last name to be the same as ours," says the lawyer. "Otherwise, one parent gets left out." The solution: Rothstein gave...
Garcia, a lawyer who taught at the University of El Salvador before he fled the country for Mexico, said El Salvador has been torn by abuse and struggle for many years. He said the human rights violations began as "low-intensity warfare"--political imprisonment and the assassination of individuals who critcized the government...
...Corporation just this February appointed its first woman member, Washington lawyer Judith Richards Hope. And students, instead of calling for the board's abolition, are now seeking its cooperation...