Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Making the trip were Robert Anderson, president, Rockwell International; George W. Ball, senior managing director, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb Inc.; Louis L. Banks, adjunct professor of management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John R. Beckett, chairman, Transamerica Corp.; Philip E. Beekman, president, the Seagram Co.; James F. Bere, chairman, Borg-Warner Corp.; Theodore F. Brophy, chairman, General Telephone & Electronics Corp.; Philip Caldwell, vice chairman of the board, Ford Motor Co.; Michael D. Dingman, chairman, Wheelabrator-Frye Inc.; Edwin D. Dodd, chairman, Owens-Illinois, Inc.; Donald N. Frey, chairman, Bell & Howell Co.; W.H. Krome George, chairman, Aluminum Co. of America; Henry...
...catalogue of horrors provided a bit of drama for what was surely one of the least exciting presidential trips abroad in memory. In fact, according to senior aides, Carter would have preferred to stay home but for his promise last year to visit South America and Africa. Said an assistant: "The word we got from Brazil was that they would feel insulted if we canceled the trip...
...Jimmy. "Frank," he intoned one morning at a senior staff meeting, "did you see the article on black holes? What do you think?" Science Adviser Frank Press, a brilliant geophysicist from M.I.T., confessed he could not fully digest the New York Times that early. The article had reported about new data gathered by one of our space probes. Well, said Carter, be sure and let him know. He was fascinated by the discussion of black holes and the speculation that they might provide answers to what holds the universe together...
Stacy is 18, a high school senior in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Now she pulls on blue jeans, a sports shirt, and ties her curly hair back with a scarf. She wears a tiny teardrop ring to show that she is engaged, but her fiance is not making this trip. Stacy and her mother set out on the 45-minute subway ride from their home to the Eastern Women's Center clinic on Manhattan's East 60th Street. They do not speak to each other on the crowded train. That whole week, for that matter, they...
DISCOVERY. Designed to eliminate the surprise element (trial by ambush) in civil suits, discovery has been greatly expanded since the 1940s. It allows a party to 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...