Word: partner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Green should take a lesson from its partner on the color wheel. Last year, Bowling Green came to Cambridge for the NCAA quarterfinals with a busload of big guys. The Falcons tried their best to lower the speed limit at Bright--oh, say down to 25 miles an hour--but couldn't enforce it. The Crimson went about 75 miles per hour and the Falcons barely scraped 20, as Harvard buzzed...
...canines keep coming. In various stages of gestation for 1988, or Year of the Dog II: K-9 (a movie about a cop and his you-know-what partner), The Dog Who Cried Wolf (a film comedy about, yes, a talking dog), The Adventures of Milo and Otis (a Japanese import about a canine and his cat friend) and Cold Dog Soup (a black comedy about a dead...
Those high starting salaries, along with big premiums for the rainmakers, are adding to the tab for clients. Ward Bower of the legal consulting firm Altman & Weil reports that rates have been soaring, to as much as $350 an hour this year for a full partner (up from about $300 last year) and as much as $100 for work done by the newest associates. To control costs, some firms have | created a new second-tier position, sometimes called staff attorney. Often recruited from less prestigious schools and hired at bargain salaries, these lawyers handle the grunt tasks. Unlike regular associates...
...environment may not be measurable in dollars. The past two years have seen a boom in alleged ethical lapses at even the bluest of blue-chip firms. New York's Sullivan & Cromwell found itself contesting no fewer than four accusations, notably one by an opposing firm that a partner bribed witnesses while representing the widow of Pharmaceutical Heir J. Seward Johnson in last year's estate battle. New York's Paul, Weiss discovered last year that a young associate, Michael David, had masterminded the "Yuppie Five" insider-trading scandal. Attorneys handling corporate mergers also sometimes get too close...
...Lattanzi, 28. But ordinary folks are doing it in droves, as Houston observes in the recently published Loving a Younger Man (Contemporary Books; $17.95). Among the couples she interviewed, Houston found that the woman is usually over 30, divorced (from an older man) and often has children. Her younger partner typically grew up with a working mother and has sisters who also have careers. "He's familiar with a woman as his peer, both intellectually and emotionally," she notes...