Word: melvin
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...accessibility, an attorney to talk to, the ability to pick up the phone and call somebody." Indeed, according to a recent American Bar Foundation study, 36% of Americans have never used an attorney. In 1973, with that untapped market in mind, Baron and his partner, Attorney Blair Melvin, 44, founded Group Legal Services. Today the firm offers round-the-clock legal consultations by phone to 20,000 California families for annual fees ranging from $35 to $60. For Baron and Melvin, The Law Store seemed a logical next step, and two additional stores will be opened soon...
Many people have accused governments of piracy, but few have as good cause as Melvin Fisher. In 1971 Fisher, 56, located a Spanish galleon that sank off the coast of Florida in 1622 carrying 47 tons of gold and silver. Since then, he and his company have been diving for the treasure, which could be worth as much as $600 million. The mission's cost so far: $5 million and four lives, including that of Fisher...
...because agents of the state covet the treasure does not give the agents the right to take it." Fisher was jubilant. Said he: "When a little guy like me can beat the government in court, it is a good signal for free enterprise." Don't celebrate too much, Melvin. There's still the income...
Unions also face stiff and growingly effective employer resistance. In the Sunbelt, it sometimes turns intimidating. Melvin Tate, a Southern organizer, finds employees of J.P. Stevens & Co., the textile giant, fearful that Stevens will close any plant that votes in a union. Stevens bosses, says Tate, do not make that threat directly because it is illegal, but their wives and relatives pass the word in gossip. In the West, Chaikin charges, owners of some garment plants have prompted the U.S. Immigration Service to raid their own factories and arrest signers of union cards as illegal immigrants?which many indeed were...
...addition of four high-power "neutral beam" injectors, developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, pumped extra energy into the hot plasma, and a shrewd switch to graphite from tungsten in critical components of the torus' vacuum chamber reduced heat loss. The director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Melvin Gottlieb, is now convinced that the break-even point can be reached with Princeton's new and bigger torus, slated to begin operation...