Word: topflight
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...chairman in Georgia and head of a coalition of Southern leaders, met with Glenn and urged him to get in touch with the group. Lance heard nothing for months. Mondale in the meantime sent his campaign chairman to see Lance for support and openly laid out his strategy. A topflight political fund raiser, Tim Finchem, approached Glenn last fall about joining the campaign. Finchem, who waited three months for an answer, finally despaired, signed on with Mondale, and has since become one of the stars of that operation...
Here the Jellicle cats, a flighty, exuberant lot full of larky midnight madness, have assembled for their annual ball. Choreographer Gillian Lynne has superbly schooled her topflight troupe in clawing, stretching, rubbing and comic feline posturing, yet no single dancer convincingly turns into a cat. Lynne is a fluent choreographer, but uninventive. She relies on three main modes-jazz, ballet and acrobatics-which in reiteration become anticlimactic. When a huge boot clunks down in the middle of the chorus in the first big dance number, the touch is deliciously clever but later seems like a prophetic critique...
...their own defense, lawyers insist that most legal consumers, while expecting topflight legal expertise, have no idea what it costs to maintain a first-rate law firm. An up-to-date law library can cost upwards of $25,000 annually. First-year associates from the best law schools are now expecting salaries from $30,000 to $40,000 a year from large firms in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. What is more, telephone bills, rents, messenger services, copying equipment and supplies, plus new computerized billing and information systems, can push a law firm's overhead...
...famed predecessor, the OSS of World War II. Since then he has not been directly associated with intelligence activities, but veterans at the agency look forward to working for him because of his reputation as a forceful manager who is open to ideas and surrounds himself with topflight aides...
...them white, male and conservative. One of his three appointments to the California Supreme Court, that of William P. Clark, brought some hoots of derision because Clark was a former Reagan aide and had a poor academic record. Yet, with his prior judicial experience and the support of a topflight staff, he has ended up serving capably. By and large, most experts give Reagan reasonably high marks for his appointments and say that he used judgeships as political payoffs less often than either Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown or Jerry Brown, the father and son who served immediately before and after...