Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the fact that they may have won on the issue which affects them less, most trial lawyers (or at least those who are most vocal) feel strongly about keeping the lawyer responsible to only his client. Yet lawyers who argue so loudly about preserving the adversary system seem in some important way to be missing the point. They tend to conceive of the client-lawyer relationship as existing in a vacuum, removed from the rest of the world; they have all but put the concept of confidentiality on a pedestal...
...Washington. "I'm calling on you to save your city, to save your precinct," he was quoted as saying. Nor had the Democratic organization rallied around Washington, mainly because of opposition in many of the city's white neighborhoods to electing a Black as mayor. Some of his most vocal white supporters are those who contend that the city's Democratic party is going to shambles anyway, so Washington might as well be in charge. Even after the city's voters had made their choice clear, newspapers have continued to write about Washington as if there were a chance...
...About 30 vocal taxi drivers came before the Cambridge City Council last night to seek support for their opposition to a proposal sponsored by cab owners to lease their cars to drivers...
...Democrats, who once again resumed their role as the balance of power in West German politics. Kohl's risky gamble in holding national elections six months after the collapse of the coalition, led by Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt, had paid off. Despite the existence of a widespread and vocal peace and protest movement, spearheaded by the Greens, Kohl had always maintained that there was a "silent majority" in the country in favor of his pro-NATO, free-enterprise policies...
Balloons above the courts were oddly appropriate this weekend, as the match had all the other trappings of an exciting home opener. A crowded gallery provided moral and often vocal support. A star attraction was on hand--the Crimson's Howard Sands, newly elevated to the number two collegiate ranking in the nation...