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New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients 'for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer.'
Bill Dedman
Ethics
Lawyer
Related
State
Benefit
Prohibit
Rules
Gifts
Lawyers
New
Clients
Person
York
New York
New York State
A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control of its role investigating firefighter deaths.
Bill Dedman
Control
Duty
Congress
Strip
Firefighter
Investigating
Firefighters
Calling
Line
Deaths
Role
Disease
Die
Representing
Centers
Who
Foundation
Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A credit ratings, making loans at competitive rates.
Bill Dedman
People
Nine
Borrow
Rates
Ratings
Mortgage
Prime
Industry
Calls
Making
Chicago
Banks
Which
Lend
Whites
Companies
Credit
Competitive
Loans
'John Doe' is typically used in a warrant when the accused is known by an alias or by a physical description.
Bill Dedman
John
Physical
Known
Accused
Used
Warrant
Description
In Los Angeles, the Police Department buys a 40-foot refrigerated trailer truck every six months just to hold DNA evidence.
Bill Dedman
Police
Every
Months
Evidence
Angeles
Truck
Police Department
Los
Los Angeles
Trailer
Department
Six
Just
Hold
Buys
Fans love McGwire for his powerful physique, for his on-field hugs of his son, the part-time bat boy. He is Big Mac, or Paul Bunyan in Cardinals red with a white-ash bat instead of an ax.
Bill Dedman
Love
Son
Fans
Big
Bat
Mac
Physique
He
Part-Time
Instead
Red
Powerful
Boy
His
Big Mac
HUGS
Paul
Cardinals
Ax
One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.
Bill Dedman
Others
Late
Latin
Latin America
One-Third
Following
Adopted
He
Come
Roberto
Model
Role
Role Models
America
Models
Rican
Professional
Professional Baseball
Baseball
Whom
Now
Baseball Players
Puerto
Players
Puerto Rican
In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.
Bill Dedman
Man
Hero
Black
Considered
Latino
Atlanta
Angeles
He
Robbing
Los
Los Angeles
Hispanic
Hispanics
Label
Miami
Often
African-American
Large
Population
Larger
Rejected
Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
Bill Dedman
Business
School
Herself
Only
Name
Names
Well
Call
Well Known
Known
Oprah
Brand
Business School
Professor
Professors
Her
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
Bill Dedman
Symphony
Support
Opera
Ballet
Theater
Galleries
Many
Groups
Museums
Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.
Bill Dedman
Organization
First
White
Society
Cincinnati
Took
Settlers
General
Name
Attracted
Permanent
Came
Officers
Revolutionary
Roman
Farmer
It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.
Bill Dedman
Culture
Consider
London
Direct
Paris
Tourists
Come
Surprise
May
Pittsburgh
Capital
Flights
Europe
Many
Here
A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.
Bill Dedman
Boom
City
Rivers
Built
Years
Survived
Pittsburgh
Coal
Bust
'J'eet jet?' is still the standard way for a Pittsburgher to ask if you're ready for a meal, but the meal itself is no longer limited to chipped ham and an Iron City beer.
Bill Dedman
Beer
You
Meal
Jet
Way
City
Longer
Limited
Ready
Still
Ham
Itself
Iron
Ask
Standard
Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent.
Bill Dedman
States
Jobs
High
Percent
Risen
Retail
Dropping
Although
Manufacturing
Manufacturing Jobs
United
United States
Early
Number
Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'
Bill Dedman
Time
Could
Put
Always
Wages
Wal-Mart
Get
Sam
Little
Low
Paid
Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5.
Bill Dedman
Father
Back
Hospital
Town
Juan
Without
His
Up
Dominican Republic
Died
Dusty
Grew
San
Republic
Public
Converted
Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal.
Bill Dedman
Employees
Some
Protected
Limit
Contracts
Personal
Union
Reasons
For the first six years of his career, Sammy Sosa was one of the least patient players in the game. He could hit the long ball and steal a base, but he was undisciplined.
Bill Dedman
Game
Long
First
Patient
Steal
Could
He
Ball
Least
His
Years
Undisciplined
Hit
Six
Base
Players
Career
While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.
Bill Dedman
Trust
Diamond
Tribe
Tribe Called Quest
Reliable
Has-Been
Neil
Neil Diamond
Slogan
More
House
Been
Quest
Blues
Stages
While
Them
Filled
Among
Reggie Campbell and Kathleen Goldsmith are participants in an American success story, the unprecedented boom of home-buying by African-Americans in the 1990s. Only he is black and she is white. When he moved into the neighborhood, she moved out.
Bill Dedman
Success
Black
White
Boom
Neighborhood
Out
Unprecedented
Only
He
Participants
She
Campbell
American
Moved
Story
Success Story
The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.
Bill Dedman
Government
Stated
Minorities
More
Federal
Federal Government
Go
Goal
Owners
Being
Achieving
Helping
In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.
Bill Dedman
Long
Neighborhoods
Stay
Integrated
Chicago
You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.
Bill Kurtis
You
Yourself
Money
First
Lose
Before
Beginning
Meet
Say
Borrow
More
Know
Couple
Well
Real
Years
Up
Maybe
In The Beginning
Sobering
Should
Working
Your
Payroll
Keep
Fast
Night
Sleep
I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.
Bill Kurtis
People
Old
Young
Think
Syndrome
Bennett
Some
Call
Young People
Reason
Cool
Tony
If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.
Bill Kurtis
You
Money
Too Much
Too
Too Much Money
Spend
Willing
Because
Always
Bundle
Get
Want
Much
Shot
Producer
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