Word: away
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even with assistance, leaving the law is harder than it sounds. Well-meaning family and friends may not understand why someone would walk away from a profession that offers status and financial security. And many lawyers may be uncertain about leaving the cocoon of practice. "It's hard to rip the label off and say, 'I'm no longer a lawyer,' " observes Leona Vogt, president of Vogt Associates, a consulting firm for attorneys in Cambridge, Mass...
Defecting from law doesn't necessarily mean a depleted bank account. Howard Tullman, 44, left the Chicago firm Levy & Ehrens in 1981 because his busy travel schedule kept him constantly away from his family. The company he then founded, CCC Information Services, which provides data to the insurance industry, today has 1,000 employees and $105 million in revenues. "You can't become wealthy selling your time," says Tullman, now a multimillionaire. "There just aren't enough hours...
Singh owns the place now, and one is unsure which jarring and inapposite piece of his biography best begins to explain him: That he is a former SDS organizer who is building a Ritz-Carlton hotel? Or that he is a developer whose fondest wish is to run away with Sea Shepherd, a Greenpeace splinter group, and ram whale ships? Perhaps that he is a 36-year-old Massachusetts- born Sikh of French-Canadian extraction, in a turban and a Ralph Lauren polo shirt? Or that he read about this 102-acre property one Sunday in 1986 and bought...
...rooms. His design guidelines, reflecting the conch-house architecture of historical Key West, run to 27 dogmatic pages: "White is the preferred and approved basic color for all structures." "Each single-family unit shall have a bougainvillea within the front-yard area . . ." What he is building is an enclave away from the trashed-out, mixed-up modern world, and he gleefully plans to earn a pile of money doing...
Singh has sea-blue eyes, magnified by thick, round glasses; his beard, unshaved since he was 17, is sparse and wiry. Born Paul LaBombard, he was, in adult eyes, a bad influence on anybody who knew him as a teenager. He ran away from his working-class family, smoked dope and organized a high school SDS chapter. Lacking money for college, he spent two winters camping out and gathering shells for a living in Key West. He was arrested at the Mayday antiwar demonstrations in Washington in 1971, and spent three days locked up in the basement of the Department...