Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trouble discerning William Ginsburg's legal strategy, they should find Stein a welcome change. He is a skilled litigator who has written books on trial tactics and taught advocacy at Harvard. And he delights judges by keeping his arguments brutally simple. He's famous for answering big firms' kitchen-sink briefs with brilliantly terse responses. He once proposed a $250 fine on lawyers for citing cases from before 1950, and $1,000 for citing law-review articles. When he was president of the D.C. bar, Stein began meetings by handing out notes that said, "Be brief...
...Rocks Sink Crew Team...
...heart-stopping moment," says Lee, who knew Toho could sink the proposed Godzilla then and there. Some quick talking took place. Says Emmerich: "I told the Japanese guys the biggest difference would be that the creature is very lean because he's very fast. I also told them, 'Guys, we either do it like this, or we don't do it at all. It's your trademark, but if you don't do it this way, I'll go make another movie, and you'll have to find someone else.'" That argument carried some weight: Toho was the Japanese distributor...
Wide-ranging financial mergers are reaching the international stage. We need to slow down before we hit a technological iceberg. Are there enough lifeboats for a financial Titanic? What happens when there is a weeklong electrical-power failure? Will victims of mother nature be left to sink because they could not make a simple electronic transaction to buy bread and milk? HEATHER MCQUAY Pasadena...
...afternoon sun begins to sink slowly intothe western sky, Charles A. Watson yells out, "Areyou looking for something?" The man outside theCambridge Street Laundromat, located at 315Cambridge St., sits with cane in hand andTam-O-Shanter on his head. From a distance healmost resembles an Irish leprechaun...