Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well-known lawyer in Philadelphia for many years with extensive experience in trial advocacy. I read with jaundiced eye the flatulent lament of President Derek Bok as reported to Time Magazine. As any experienced lawyer knows particularly a trial lawyer, the individual and the small businessman has the greatest need of dedicated professional service when matters come into litigation Large, multinational corporations, large public corporations, organs of government, labor unions and other powerful business, government and service organizations and corporations, have untold resources with which to employ qualified legal counsel and professional public opinion manipulators. The individual's sole resource...
...only remaining course in divestiture. President Bok recognizes this option, but rejects it without careful consideration nevertheless concluding that divestiture is "almost certainly destined to prove ineffective." Other, however, disagree. The states of Massachusetts and Connecticut, as well as well as the cities of Philadelphia, Grand Rapids, Cambridge, and others, have all divested. The University of Wisconsin, Michigan State University, Hampshire College, Antioch College, and many other educational institutions have also taken action against South Africa through divestiture...
...shadowy George Mason, near neighbor of Washington's and brilliant political writer, drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights in Williamsburg. A copy was dispatched to Philadelphia, where Jefferson read it just before he sat down to draft the Declaration of Independence. His masterwork had many glints of Mason...
Black strength at the polls was manifest in the recent wins of Harold Washington in the Chicago mayoral race and W. Wilson Goode in the Philadelphia Democratic mayoral primary. It may also prove contagious. "When you get a triggering force like the Washington victory, you generate a great deal of dynamism in other cities," says Political Scientist Marguerite Ross Barnett of Columbia University. "It will have an enormous impact on national politics." The moral of these two races, adds Mary Coleman, a political science professor at Jackson State University, is that there is a new reluctance on the part...
They were constructed from Goaltender Smith celebrates his leading role the beginning by General Manager Bill Torrey, along with Coach Al Arbour for the past ten years, to be rugged enough to stand up to the Philadelphia Flyers, scourges of the Patrick Division. But the Islanders throw their weight around reluctantly. Clark Gillies, a 6-ft. 3-in., 214-lb. Gary Cooper type from Moose Jaw, Sask., throttles troublemakers almost regretfully. Mike Bossy, New York's most prolific scorer, expressly refuses to fight. They put people in mind of the Montreal Canadiens, the only other team that has ever...