Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind who bumps along falling into bed with losers and who drinks water "only in the form of melted ice in my drinks." A ghostwriter for a Jackie Collins-ish author, Claudia is trying to exit her protracted adolescence and win the love of her best friend, a lawyer, William, who might want to keep things platonic. Not much happens in this novel (and some of what does happens a bit too randomly), but Claudia is endearing because she remains appreciative of her own grittiness. She avoids coming off as Bridget can: like an unfunny stand-up comic bemoaning...
...these logos similar? Certainly. Is that actionable? MICHAEL EISNER is about to find out. Next week intellectual-property lawyer PIERCE O'DONNELL will ask a Los Angeles court for the right to depose the Disney CEO on behalf of GoTo.com the Web search engine that was launched in December 1997 using the logo on the left. The one on the right belongs to Disney's Go Network, which made its online debut just last January. "We think Disney was well aware of our logo and consciously went forward with theirs," says O'Donnell, noting that in legal papers filed...
Critics charge that unions--in particular the influential Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees--continue to call the shots. "The students are vocal, but it's hard to get a viewpoint from them that does not reflect that of UNITE," says Allan Ryan, a Harvard University lawyer who has negotiated with antisweatshop protesters. Sheldon Steinbach, general counsel for the American Council on Education, asks, "How much of this student interest is really being influenced by unions whose main goal is to try to bring these jobs back to the United States...
After my great-uncle survived Auschwitz and came to America in the late 1940s, he got a job selling shoes in Braintree, Mass. He had been a lawyer in Germany, and when the owner of the shoe shop saw that his new salesman was able and educated, he offered him the position of store manager. But my great-uncle declined. He said it was enough for him to be in America and to be able to sell shoes. And so he did, until the day he died...
...While at the Wall Street Journal Bacon interviewed Alan Greenspan 2 Greenspan played alongside Leonard Garment in the Henry Jerome band 3 Garment was a lawyer for Richard Nixon 4 Nixon spawned Watergate...