Word: politicians
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Perhaps what is most grating, ultimately, is the indispensability of lawyers in modern society: their skill at decoding the laws written by Congressmen-lawyers or their lawyer aides, at interpreting the regulations promulgated by bureaucrat-lawyers, at helping influence the decisions made by politician-lawyers. The swashbuckling entrepreneur may not be a vanished species, but he is an endangered one; and in a complex, technological society he may not get very far without a secular priest, his lawyer, to minister to him. "I can't believe the change," says Atlanta Attorney Sidney O. Smith, recently retired from the federal bench...
...asks many times, "Why me?" The audience then learns that doctor and patient had been lovers in college, and that he ended the affair when he learned that she was with child. She then swore revenge and celibacy, and her vow strengthened as she charted his career as a politician who came out against abortion. When she informs him that the hospital has a special committee which will consider his request for termination of the pregnancy, he promises that, given a second chance, he'll be more sympathetic to her cause. He then delivers the line that best captures...
...Front with the Socialists and the small Left Radicals. The Common Program of 1972 marked the first success of this strategy. But it was signed, not by the old and decrepit Socialist Party of the Fourth Republic, but by a vigorous new Socialist Party taken over by a cunning politician, Francois Mitterrand...
Ever since flamboyant Congressman Adam Clayton Powell lost his House seat in 1970, roly-poly Charles Coles Diggs Jr.. 55, has been the senior black member of Congress. The son of a powerful Michigan politician who became wealthy as an undertaker in Detroit, Diggs has won election to the House twelve times from the city's predominantly poor and black 13th Congressional District. Because of his seniority, he became the first chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971. He is also chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee and the House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa...
...campaigned for Carter and held down a job in the capital as legal counsel for a U.S. Senate subcommittee on education. But come November, Peck's good boy hopes to win a seat in Congress from his home state of California. When he needs counsel, the aspiring politician huddles with a formidable pair of campaign cochairmen: Father Gregory and former California Governor Pat Brown...