Word: protractors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delay endlessly by demanding often absurdly peripheral information "relating to" the lawsuit. The wear-'em-down philosophy was articulated by Cravath, Swaine & Moore Senior Partner Bruce Bromley in a speech before an appreciative audience of Stanford law students 20 years ago: "I was born, I think, to be a protractor ... I could take the simplest antitrust case and protract it for the defense almost to infinity ... [One case] lasted 14 years ... Despite 50,000 pages of testimony, there really wasn't any dispute about the facts ... We won that case, and, as you know, my firm's meter was running...
...Center, says instead that the work is "a manifestation of that inquisitive, aesthetic, adventurous side of the human spirit." Below Field's office a grey-haired adventurer wanders distractedly through the Center's library, his untucked white shirt sticking out below his suit jacket. He clutches a protractor in one hand as though he has forgotten it is there, and his mind seems to be somewhere among the stars he is studying. The library where he ponders has no formal checkout desk. No librarians remind borrowers to fill out checkout slips, which simply admonish borrowers to return books as soon...