Word: lawyers
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Pioneered in the 1950s by Louis Kelso, a San Francisco lawyer and economist, ESOPs were slow to catch on. But Kelso eventually created a fertile financial climate for his idea by enlisting the support of Russell Long, the populist Democrat from Louisiana. Before retiring from the Senate Finance Committee in 1986, Long initiated more than 20 bills to encourage creation of ESOPs...
...eight-day non-jury trial last May and June. The B-School's compliance has been at issue since testimony revealed that 10 years' worth of confidential tenure documents, which the judge ruled were pertinent to Jackson's case, had been incinerated. Allan A. Ryan, Jr., the lawyer representing the University, maintains that the destruction of the documents was inadvertent...
...Club and Kevin G. Baker, the lawyer representing complainant Lisa J. Schkolnick '88, have spent months responding to commission inquiries, raising objections and gathering evidence to back their views. Now MCAD must sort out the information and decide whether it has jurisdiction over the case and how it should rule. The state judicial body has given the case to its legal arm to review, according to spokesperson Judith K. Wright...
With Matador (1986) and Law of Desire (1987), Almodovar displayed his brazen assurance of style and vaulted from comic realism to soap-operatic mannerism. Matador is a contemporary vampire story: an ex-bullfighter and a woman lawyer, believing that death is the ultimate climax, impale each victim on the cold steel of their lust. Law of Desire draws a bent triangle: a gay movie director, his transsexual sister (Maura) and her adopted child's rightful mother (played by a Spanish drag queen). Revelations of murder, incest, suicide and lotsa hot sex follow, but the tone remains knowing, tender. As Matador...
Brown had made little money, but he had developed a taste for the good life. So when Tom Boggs, one of Washington's paramount lawyer-lobbyists, talked to him at a party given by Kennedy, he was open to an offer. Brown signed on as a partner at Patton, Boggs & Blow with a salary comfortably in the six-figure range. "He has a deft touch on Capitol Hill, just like he has on a basketball court," says former Army Secretary Clifford Alexander, a Washington lawyer who plays ball with Brown on Saturday mornings. "He makes his opinions clear...