Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAWYERS Mighty Raise For decades, the fate of young lawyers in big law firms was right out of Dickens-a harrowing upward creep from Cratchit-like work weeks of 60 hours, to the office politics of survival, to the great expectations (years hence) of a lucrative partnership. While enduring those early hard times, the country's brightest law graduates dutifully toiled for relatively little. In 1963, the going rate for new associates at top Manhattan firms was only $7,200 a year-and much less in many other cities. But no more. Law students are abuzz with the news...
...perhaps through an elected synod of laymen, for the laity to have some say in picking the Pope. He believes that the church's structure ought to be revised in order to "transform our system of absolutistic authority into one based on mutual service and partnership...
...worse, the Orito field in Putumayo is 193 miles from the Pacific port of Tumaco, and in between loom the Andes mountains, requiring a pipeline rising to 11,450 ft. Because of the physical difficulties, development costs became prohibitive for Texaco alone, so the company formed a fifty-fifty partnership with Gulf, which supplied the necessary capital boost while Texaco handled the exploration. The project was christened "Operation Hannibal...
...them in by traveling from town to town with his partner Joe (Eastwood), who turns him in for the bounty money, then springs him at the last moment by shooting the rope with which Tuco is being hanged. When Joe's aim begins to deteriorate, so does the partnership, but the two stick together long enough to set out in pursuit of $200,000 worth of stolen gold hidden in a desert cemetery. Also after the money is a thin-lipped sadist named Setenza (Lee Van Cleef...
Most ambitious of the new proposals is the $2.1 billion manpower program, under which the President hopes to forge a partnership between industry and Government to provide jobs for the hard-core unemployed. Last year's "concentrated employment program" conducted by the Labor Department identified some 500,000 Americans-mostly Negro, Puerto Rican and Mexican-American slum dwellers-who have never had jobs or who face serious employment handicaps...