Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...tactics have come stronger positions. The Carter and Brown people say he's changed his tune, that Kennedy supports things he couldn't pronounce two months ago. Kennedy's organizers disagree. "Sometimes you change positions because of the dynamics of the world," says Gerard Dougherty, the Boston lawyer who's been shipped out to run the Kennedy effort in Illinois...
...their doctors long failed to connect their illnesses to Agent Orange. After reading about the Seveso incident, however, Paul Reutershan, a veteran who was suffering from cancer of the colon, filed suit in 1977. He died the next year, at age 28, but by then Victor Yannacone Jr., the lawyer who had brought the 1966 suit that helped ban DDT, had taken up his case. The defendants are Dow Chemical Co., Monsanto Co., Thompson-Hayward Chemical Co., Hercules Inc. and Diamond Shamrock Corp...
...years, critics have also argued that the test fails to measure the skills that a lawyer really needs. More recently, the exam has been indicted for discrimination against minorities. The only agreement about the test, apparently, is that it is an ordeal. In virtually all states, applicants spend six hours on one day trying to answer 200 tricky multiple-choice questions drawn up by the National Conference of Bar Examiners with the help of the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J. The applicants then write essays in response to a series of legal questions, which vary from state to state...
...liberal field, which may include Galvin, Cambridge resident Wendy Abt, Cambridge Civic Association activist Paul Walker and local lawyer Jarvis Kellogg, stays crowded, McCann will be able to rest easy...
...ubiquitous Mayor Errichetti also introduced the sheik's pals to Howard Criden, a relatively obscure Philadelphia lawyer who had made big profits in real estate. When he learned of the sheik's desire to spread his vast wealth, the soft-spoken Criden was far from quiet. He passed the word to four members of Congress, all of whom succumbed to the FBI's sting...