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...executives and the editors of other papers. Still, you were baffled. "What really is an Ombudsperson?" you wondered. You rushed to the dictionary to uncover this SAT word long forgotten. There you were shocked to find only a listing for an obviously archaic word, ombudsman. You were disgusted. Noah Webster must have been a sexist...
...loan board prohibited Madison Financial from buying the entire Castle Grande tract because, as a subsidiary of Madison Guaranty, it could hold total investments of no more than 6% of Madison Guaranty's assets. So Madison assigned the right to purchase part of the property to Seth Ward, Webster Hubbell's father-in-law, for $1.15 million. Madison lent the entire purchase price to Ward, a loan for which Ward was not personally liable. McDougal also promised Ward that as lots from his land were sold and the proceeds used to repay the Madison loan, Ward would earn...
Meanwhile, Hillary was trying to build up the fledgling litigation practice at Rose. She, like her litigation partners Vincent Foster and Webster Hubbell, were at a disadvantage: those partners who handled corporate clients tended to get the lion's share of compensation, and the only way Hillary, Foster and Hubbell could improve their pay was to bring in more clients...
...demagogue--"A leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power" (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary...
WASHINGTON, D. C.: Former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell took time out from the 21 month prison term he's serving for Whitewater-related fraud to go before the Senate Whitewater Committee for the third time on Wednesday. Hubbell denied that he intentionally misled federal regulators in their inquiry two years ago into a possible conflict of interest in the Rose law firm where he and Hillary Clinton were both partners. Hubbell's testimony was prompted by the discovery last month in the Clinton residence of Rose law firm billing records that had been missing under subpoena for 18 months...