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...began shifting basic chores to in-house legal staffs. When they do go outside these days, they often shop around, using firms on a deal-to-deal basis. After a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the right of lawyers to advertise, once reticent partnerships became increasingly willing to toot their own horns. In the unaccustomed clangor of competition, the bonds of collegiality that held a firm together have withered. "If you're going to exist in this competitive environment," says Boston Attorney Richard Csaplar of the 90-lawyer Csaplar & Bok, "you've got to root out less productive seniors...
...fumes and carcinogens. A bike is easy to park in a sliver of space, and of precious oil it needs only a smidgen to keep the wheels squeakless. Riders may turn rowdy, but the vehicle itself is quiet -- a blessed virtue amid the squawk-bleat- scream-grind-growl-honk-toot-wail-shr iek that is the voice of the big city...
...little national-pride music, maestro. Thank you. Our very own United States of America (rooty-toot-toot) makes the best TV beer commercials (tantara) in the universe. Nobody else is close, unless it is some race of advertising geniuses in the Crab nebula, and that is not close, and anyway the Crabs do not have John Madden or Mickey Spillane, so forget them...
...James F. Conlan Jr. was a localmusician of enough repute for the Harvard Band toask him to join it during the 300th birthdaycelebration. Fifty years later, still a musicianof repute, though now living in the the Lone StarState, Conlan will once again toot his horn whileHarvard toots...
...object is to learn to discuss rationally," Fiji delegate and erst-while Milton Academy student Joe F. Toot said yesterday. "Our resolutions should offer real solutions to real conflicts," he added...