Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slight, er, problem has cropped up at the large (68 partners) law firm of Gage & Griswell; the Management Oversight Committee wonders if maybe McCormack A. ("Mack") Malloy might not be able to help them solve it. Seems that Bert Kamin, like his friend Mack a partner at Gage & Griswell, has disappeared, and so has about $5.6 million. The money was lifted from an account the firm had assembled to settle insurance claims against the fatal crash of a TransNational Air plane in 1985. Since TN is by far the firm's biggest and most lucrative account, the missing money could...
That is not easy for Mack Malloy, Turow's most complex and problematic hero to date. Pushing 50, Mack agrees to look for the missing partner because he fears his own high-paying job at Gage & Griswell may be in jeopardy; if he succeeds, he should be able to coast on his partners' gratitude for a few more years. The idea of the chase appeals to the ex-cop in him. And the job may distract him from the dreariness of his personal life: his recent divorce, his unruly adolescent son, the drinking problem he hopes he has solved...
...Press conference with the Danish Prime Minister and the President of the European Commission: "Thirty-one years ago, President Kennedy made a statement that I believe holds as true today as it did then. He said, 'We see in Europe a partner with whom we could deal on the basis of full equality...
...gave Atlanta's WXIA-TV a chance to interview singers Travis Tritt and Doug Stone on the urgent subject of "why country music is so popular." New York's WABC-TV used a Kathie Lee Gifford special on motherhood as the pretext for a feature on her TV partner Regis Philbin's exercise regimen...
Dismayed, my partner, John A. Hancock '93, and I searched around for something to build. We gave some thought to a data compression/decompression chip, but decided it would be difficult to implement one that would do a decent job, especially when we were supposed to use no more than 10,000 transistors--a generous limit, it turned...