Word: weissberg
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...melodies on Little Creatures, released a couple of months ago and cruising into the upper regions of the charts, are all smooth sailing. Eric Weissberg, of Dueling Banjos fame, even puts in a guest appearance, playing a steel guitar on Creatures of Love that makes it sound like an Eagles tune. There is a Cajun accordion on Road to Nowhere and enough unashamed tunesmithing all around to set toes to tapping and get the Top 40 a little loosened...
Kamilla Bren, Richard L. Callan, Paul Duke, Christopher J. Georges, Kristin A. Goss, Peter J. Howe, Holly A. Idelson, Rachel H. Inker, Rebecca R. Kramnick, Charles T. Kurzman, Jonathon S. Sapers, Cyrus M. Sanal and Melissa I. Weissberg contributed to the reporting for this article...
...Lynn Weissberg acts as chairperson of the legal committee of one of the city's largest tenant lobbying groups and frequently appears before the rent board on behalf of residents. She also maintains a private law practice and attends rent board proceedings with her tenant clients...
...understand they [rent board members] serve without pay, but that's no excuse for rudeness. There's no other way to describe it. Most of them make no effort to explain to the parties what's going on "Weissberg explains that because of the lack of a volume of case precedents "for someone in there [at the rent board] for the first time there is no way to get a handle on it. It's not unusual for Fred Cohn to lean back and recall" precedents she says, adding that his status as the most senior board member "puts...
Chairman Callaghan also "wields too much power" over other board members, Weissberg says. "The chairman is the only lawyer member, and he's looked to so that the decision is basically his, especially if it centers on a legal issue where the others feel incompetent." She adds that "apart from the merits, the chairman lacks common courtesy I find that intolerable...