Word: partnering
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...feel there is not a need," Silva says. "There is no A and B just an A and an A. No one is saying they are depriving the partner of something they couldn't get elsewhere...
...says Officer Dennis Rhodes, a 20-year veteran of the L.A.P.D., "but every time you check in for a shift, you don't really know if you're going to go home that night." Two weeks ago, a suspected car thief pointed a 9-mm pistol at Rhodes' partner in the squad car, who then fired a shot at the gunman, forcing him to drop his weapon. "The whole incident took a minute and a half," says Rhodes, "and what raced through my mind was . . . the fact that I was going to get killed in the front seat...
Clifford and law partner Robert Altman, who is First American's president, are now under scrutiny by a New York grand jury seeking to determine whether the pair were knowing front men for one of the most ingenious bank tycoons of the modern age: B.C.C.I.'s founder, Agha Hasan Abedi of Pakistan. Clifford and Altman insist they were not, despite long and close connections. They were attorneys for B.C.C.I. from 1978 through 1990, as well as attorneys for First American, billing the two banks for more than $1 million during that period. Clifford, who has long defended Abedi, says...
...also 46, grew up in Atlanta, moved to New York City to become a playwright and wound up as a program executive at ABC. They met when Miller was co-producing one of ABC's big hits of the '70s, Happy Days. Boyett later joined Miller (and his then partner Edward Milkis) to produce such shows as Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy and Bosom Buddies. "What we really care about is pleasing people," says Miller. "If that's what we're charged with, the verdict is guilty...
...persuaded nervous Federal Reserve officials that the buyers were ! acting as individuals on their own behalf. When questioned about B.C.C.I.'s financial role in the acquisition, Clifford flatly told the officials that there wasn't any. Clifford became chairman of the bank, renamed First American, and his law partner, Robert Altman, became president. Clifford regularly briefed Abedi on the U.S. firm's operations. When queried on the briefings, Clifford explained that B.C.C.I. as adviser to the Arab owners of First American needed to know about the banking company...