Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four prominent male businessmen and one lawyer assumed positions on the Board of Overseers on June 6, fulfilling the University's announced intention of increasing the representation of members of the financial community on the larger of Harvard's two governing boards...
Times have changed. Now Herbert's closest aide and spokesman is Lawyer Stanley Rader, himself recently sidelined and now back in power. Rader denies that Herbert ever designated Garner Ted as his successor. In a florid churchwide encyclical, the father explains the sudden ouster by accusing his son of perfidy: "I derived my authority from the living CHRIST. You derived what you had from me, and then used it totally CONTRARY to THE WAY Christ...
...small children, has reluctantly gone to work as a night waitress on weekends to cover living expenses. Gladys Glazer, a retired secretary in Orlando, Fla., shops where second-quality vegetables and fruits are offered at reduced prices, and even there she shuns strawberries as an extravagance. Manhattan Lawyer Arthur Alexander delivers some letters in person to nearby business offices to save on postage...
...some cities, a nouveau riche class is rising: childless young couples entering professions in which salaries are shooting up. Says Mary Rothschild, 26, a Seattle editor: "A few years back when I was in school, I owned two pairs of jeans and three shirts." Now she and her lawyer-husband Peter, 30, earn $40,000 a year; they own two cars and a half-interest in a sailboat, and they eat at good restaurants frequently...
...same time, Eximbank has been showing new signs of life under President John L. Moore Jr., 48, an Atlanta lawyer who was appointed in 1977. So far this fiscal year, the bank approved direct loans to foreign buyers for $2.1 billion in exports, up from $423 million in the equivalent period a year ago. Last week the bank announced its biggest deal yet: a $732 million credit for the Korea Electric Co. to buy two U.S. nuclear power stations. The project, which will ultimately cost $2.2 billion, will support 56,600 jobs at Westinghouse, Bechtel and more than...