Word: lawyerly
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...voters approved it last March. Once the dust settles, if it does, from Proposition 13, the Tax-Limitation Committee will introduce an amendment in the California legislature aimed at tying state spending increases to the growth in average personal income. "We are not quixotic," contends Sacramento Lawyer Lewis Uhler, president of the committee. "We see overall tax limitation as the power of the people to shape our society and our destiny. This is going to be a long, tough, no-nonsense battle...
...addition to the N.P.D., there are an estimated 126 illegal neo-Nazi groups in West Germany. None of them has more than 300 members. Some of them are "alte Nazis" or oldtime Hitlerites like Manfred Roeder, 50, a disbarred lawyer who leads the Deutsche Bürgerinitiative (the German People's Movement). Roeder, who recently disappeared underground to escape charges of "public incitement," has damned the present West German government as an "illegal piece of dirt run by criminals." Whoever thinks otherwise is "a Jew-loving idiot...
Hamilton College Sol Linowitz, LL.D., diplomat, lawyer...
Business could also expand employment, Jones believes, if the U.S. were not the most litigious society in history, if small groups of interveners could not so easily block plant construction and expansion. "There is something to the old tale that when there is one lawyer in town, he starves, but when there are two, they both drive Cadillacs...
...other hand, there have been at least ten newsroom invasions by police since the Stanford incident. "If police come to view newsrooms as places where they can routinely get information, this decision will have more of a chilling effect than any previous case," says Floyd Abrams, a noted constitutional lawyer who helped win the Pentagon papers case for the Times in 1971. "Then it will be a different kind of country from the one the First Amendment was designed to preserve...