Word: relished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reminders of the elite status that three years at the Law School provide to those who choose to undergo whatever social barbarism it imposes. The show's authors depict the painstaking process of interviewing with corporate law firms, an experience familiar to most third-year students and anticipated with relish by a great number in their first. The several condescending references to the Yale law school--one would have been enough--show the performers' academic commitments. They tell us that "Law School ain't no place to be in love," and how "This legal tutoring is really neutoring." Even...
Both Mannix and Harris want to win, and both obviously relish the chance to play the Tigers and Quakers on the home hardcourt. "It seemed that every other year something has gone wrong," Mannix said recently. "It's a great year if you have something to play for this late in the season." "Every other year," Harris added, "we were just playing...
Reid said he will "take a hard stance" because he does not "relish the idea of being a victim of the system," adding that he remains one of the lowest paid members of the department...
...over Judge Scott." Bumper stickers have sprouted, reading LEE IS HOT-SCOTT IS NOT. A Mobile, Ala., lawyer who is president of the conservative Taxpayers Education Lobby has arrived in town to represent Lee, frankly "looking for a classic confrontation." Says Dan C. Alexander Jr., with obvious relish, "This is the first time we've found a state judge who would say no to a federal court...
...success in the 18th century. Pierre du Pont never ran dry; neither did John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Joseph Kennedy or Henry R. Luce. Epstein tips his mortarboard to these classic American gogetters. In a series of biographical sketches, he admires their energy and single-mindedness and the uncomplicated relish they took in pursuing knowledge, wealth and power. He understands the influences that gave their ambitions strength and direction: the Enlightenment and flowering of scientific curiosity; the Puritan ethic that placed religion in the service of profit; a vision of industrial progress that would free men from donkey work...