Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...What are we seeking to do is to make Congress as much as possible a full partner with the President," Laxalt told TIME'S congressional correspondent, Neil MacNeil. Laxalt would be Reagan's spokesman in Congress, explaining to the leaders of both parties in the House and Senate just what the President's policy is and driving down Pennsylvania Avenue to tell Reagan about the desires and problems of the legislators who must get the Administration's new bills passed. Says Laxalt: "He wants me to be his eyes and ears on the Hill...
...appeals courts. These paychecks still put judges among the top 5% of U.S. wage earners. But the judges point to figures showing that the average 50-year-old lawyer working for a medium-size or large private firm makes $150,000. Even a junior partner in such firms, who may be no more than eight years beyond a clerkship for a federal judge, can equal or top the judge's earnings...
...asking "how they might tell their children that they cannot afford to send them to college." Other spokesmen have been somewhat more restrained. "We ask judges to be purer than Caesar's wife, but we don't pay them what they are worth," says Harold Tyler, a partner in a New York law firm (and former district judge) who now heads an American Bar Association (A.B.A.) committee on federal judicial compensation. "They are the guardians of our Constitution...
Bergman makes himself very clear on this point in two monologues delivered by Tim, a man who appears, at first, to be a peripheral character. He is Katarina's homosexual business partner, who introduced the murderer to his victim, and who, in examining his motive for so doing, discovers that the strings that moved him are far too tangled for rational explanation. In these arias an actor named Walter Schmidinger does protean work. The rest of the cast is excellent too, but because Tim is the only one who fully grasps Bergman's philosophical idea...
...montage, realized in great, often tragic detail, are shrewdly observed. There is the casually inhuman toughness of the last frontier, where, when a drunk, drooling Indian lurches and almost collapses on the author's table in a diner his companion barely looks up as he says "Fuck off, partner." There is the disturbing impact of the short-sighted greed of the oil industry...