Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Both sides were relying heavily on the skill and shrewdness of the five distinguished U.N. envoys. Much care had gone into choosing them: former Venezuelan Ambassador to the U.S. and U.N. Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley, Algerian Chief U.N. Delegate Mohammed Bedjaoui, Syrian Career Diplomat Adib Daoudy, Sri Lankan Lawyer Hector W. ("Harry") Jayawardene, and French Human Rights Activist Louis-Edmond Pettiti...
...each meeting, in his lawyer-like fashion, Vance unfurled a detailed brief urging Europe to support the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics and its embargo of grain and high technology sales to the Soviet Union. Vance also called for a beefing-up of NATO and increased European military aid to Pakistan and Turkey. Above all, he preached unity, warning that the Kremlin must not be allowed to drive a wedge between the allies...
...boiler-room artists ready to sell to a gullible public. Says Attorney General Robert Abrams: "The same types of salesmen who brought us underwater land, worthless uranium stocks and phony gold certificates are in the process of perpetrating on the American public their latest scheme-oil futures contracts." A lawyer with the New York attorney general's office last week lamented that the masters of scam would probably soon be peddling chopped-liver futures...
...basic question is whether bar exams are a good measure of who is qualified to be a lawyer. The major criticism is that while they do test memory, they do not probe ability to do legal research, conduct interviews and argue in court. Bar officials in California, concerned about this and the low pass rates achieved by minorities there (about 30% for blacks and 40% for Hispanics, vs. 70% for whites), have considered conducting an experiment: having bar applicants take various innovative tests, including a quiz on a mock arbitration proceeding recorded on video tape. Whatever they are, new legal...
...repeated charges and investigations have already begun to erode the Treasury Secretary's effectiveness as the nation's chief financial officer. Normally affable and confident, Miller has become truculent and testy after spending distracting hours huddling with his lawyer and countering questions by reporters. Policy clout is now beginning to drift away from the Treasury Department. Since Miller took office six months ago, his top deputies for domestic and international economic affairs have both resigned...