Word: controller
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...defendant's assets that they suspect to be fruits of the crime -- even before obtaining a conviction. The targeted assets may include funds that could be used to pay an attorney. As a result, says University of Florida law professor Fletcher Baldwin, "federal prosecutors now have control not only over the defendant but also over the defendant's attorneys...
...kind of control, say many experts, that has hit the defense bar in the solar plexus and left many in the profession reeling. In the past year the threat of forfeiture actions by the Government has forced many defense lawyers to diversify their practice and has even caused a few to bail out of big drug litigation. More important, it has plunged many attorneys into a sea of paper work to justify the source of their pay, pressuring some to avoid representing certain suspects and others to plea-bargain away their clients' cases...
...company is a great way to showcase products. Ford has already bought into Hertz, General Motors is allied with Avis, and Chrysler owns Thrifty. Now a foreign manufacturer is getting into the act. Last week Mitsubishi Motors became the first Japanese owner of a U.S. agency when it bought control of Value Rent-A-Car for an undisclosed sum. Mitsubishi currently supplies 10% of Value's 20,000-car fleet, a share that will rise to 85% by year's end. After the agency has used the cars, it will turn them over to the company's dealer network...
Last February, after Stallings proclaimed his total split from Rome on the Phil Donahue show, the archdiocese excommunicated him and all Catholics in his flock. At that time, the priest announced that his organization had abandoned Catholic teachings against abortion, birth control, homosexual activity and remarriage after divorce. His planned consecration as a bishop this week is to be performed by a like-minded prelate from an obscure white denomination, Archbishop Richard Bridges of the Independent Old Catholic Church in Highland, Calif. As a bishop, Stallings will be able to ordain his own schismatic priests...
...miscellaneous." A consciousness born primarily of visuals can come terrifyingly close to that of the tape-recorder novels of the vid kids' most successful voice, Bret Easton Ellis, in which everyone's a speed freak and relationships last about as long as videos. Life, you might say, by remote control...