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...word has gotten around that those four workmen--because of a strike--won't get around to finishing Briggs until January or (gulp) even late March, pre-season attention has shifted from the arena to the team that will eventually play there...
...Waitkus credits four slick 30-second TV spots for a 35% boost in business. Says Partner Saul Sarney: "We're reaching a whole group of people who didn't know what their rights were and felt intimidated by lawyers." In one bankruptcy ad, a violin plays as workmen cart furniture out of a home and a voice intones: "When financial tragedy strikes, you don't have to lose everything ... There are laws to protect...
Even zealots occasionally have second thoughts. Carter forgot to store several pages of his memoirs and lost them from his Lanier "No Problem." Historical Romance Writer Robyn Carr (The Blue Falcon) fears that workmen digging near her new house in Florida will hit a power line. A voltage drop of even a few seconds could cause the displayed page of text to disappear on her Burroughs Redactor-III. (Apple Computer Inc. offers an accessory for just such occasions-a battery pack that supplies electricity during blackouts. Its name: Apple Juice.) The most surreal glitch occurred when Environmentalist-Writer Michael Parfit...
Those who have read her 125 decisions on the Arizona appeals court, which deal with such routine legal issues as workmen's compensation, divorce settlements and tort actions, see her in the mold of judges who exercise "judicial restraint." "She tends to be a literalist with acute respect for statutes," said Frank O'Connor's colleagues consider her decisions crisp and well written. "Mercifully brief and cogent," said McGowan. "Clear, lucid and orderly," said Frank. But one Supreme Court clerk finds her writing "perfectly ordinary-no different from any other 2,000 judges around the country...
...appeals court, O'Connor faced no landmark cases. But she did manage to cut the court's case load by persuading her former colleagues in the senate to modify laws involving workmen's compensation and unemployment insurance. Generally, she upheld trial judges, dismissing appeals from defendants who claimed they had been denied a speedy trial, refused transcripts, and other technicalities. In an article for the current issue of the William and Mary Law Review, she urged federal judges to give greater weight to the factual findings of state courts, contending that when a state judge moves...