Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Gardin says Crockett spoke with a University lawyer without having the union's attorney present, and signed an affadavit disagreeing with HUERA's unfair labor practice charge. In an emotional September union board meeting, Crockett gives a resignation speech. He later rescinds his resignation offer, but the board holds another meeting without inviting Crockett and accepts his resignation...
...tendency on the part of The New York Times to play this kind of ideological game when he documented the manner in which they presented the "objective" views of both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1973. As he observed, "The Israeli side was presented by an Israeli lawyer; the Arab side, by an American ambassador to an Arab country who had no formal training in Oriental Studies...
...first, dubbed Vesco I by Government lawyers, he offered four Georgians $10 million in late 1976 if they could persuade the incoming Carter Administration to fix his legal problems. The group in turn paid W. Spencer Lee IV, a lawyer from Albany, Ga., $10,000 to talk with his longtime friend and Carter confidant Hamilton Jordan about Vesco's plight. Lee met first with Carter Aide Richard M. Harden, who, claims Lee, persuaded him not to see Jordan. Lee says he then dropped the scheme entirely. After investigating Vesco I for 18 months, a federal grand jury in Washington...
...office in New York that if it allowed him to testify before a Senate subcommittee investigating Vesco II, he would stand trial on at least some of the federal charges against him. Said Vesco to TIME last week: "The time for games has come to an end." Justice Department lawyers scoff at the offer. His real motive, they insist, is to trick the committee into giving him immunity from prosecution for whatever he says in the hearing room - and then talk about every charge against him, no matter how irrelevant to the committee's probe. He then more than...
...they figured, the city had already gone through a two-year struggle over DNA research in the city and decided, in the words of Biogen lawyer Kenneth Novack, "not to ban it and not to let it be done totally laissezfaire, but to allow the research if strict guidelines were followed...