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.""Sounds fishy to me," said Robert Dastrow."Sounds like a bribe to me," saidDastrow."What's your name?""Dastrow.Robert Dastrow," said the unemployable engineer, and then soundinglike a thousand steel guitars twanging their ugliest notes, he spelled out hisname."Robert, I'm a lawyer.The law is not open-and-shut like laymen think.Nothingis illegal unless a court and the written law say it is illegal.That's thelaw.No court ever ruled on anything it didn't know.""But concealing the truth doesn't make it less than the truth.""Robert, we're talking about five thousand dollars in cash, minimum."Robert Dastrow thought about truth and honesty.He thought about the values ofhis small Midwestern city.He thought about how he had been raised.Fivethousand dollars would indeed go a long way toward a comfortable life in GrandIsland."You said minimum.""More if we win, Robert," said the young lawyer, who brought him back to hisoffice to take a deposition.It was a storefront with some Spanish written onthe front in case a passing Latino might need legal help.There were two pieces of furniture, a chair and an old scarred wooden desk.Onthat wooden desk young Nathan Palmer took down a deposition from RobertDastrow.His other two partners listened in amazement as he described the make and thecar and how he could tell the ball bearings in the steering system were notproperly aligned."Genius," said Arnold Schwartz, who recognized mathematical excellence."Interesting," said Genaro Rizzuto."but, will it hold up in court?"As a test all three of them went at Robert Dastrow for two hours, trying tobreak him.But when it came to the workings of a mechanical object, Robert wasnot only at home, he was king.He even explained how some engineers might tryto defend the structure of the automobile.And he refuted those defenses forthe three lawyers.At the end, Palmer, Rizzuto, and Schwartz were numb from talk of valves, ballbearings, balance, and structural design.Robert was fresh as a daisy andstill talking.What they learned from this young Midwest engineer who didn't have a job wasthat they would put the manufacturer on trial on behalf of the plaintiff.The auto company took one look at Dastrow's deposition, passed it to theirengineers, and the following morning not only agreed to the largestout-of-court settlement in the history of the industry, but promptly hiredPalmer, Rizzuto on a large retainer.This meant that the firm and itstechnical support, namely its star witness, would never be able to act againstthem again.The old desk went into a glass case, and Robert Dastrow received a personalretainer from the law firm of a hundred thousand dollars a year.If Robert hadany residual moral qualms, they died after his first really good date.Ofcourse the date had been arranged by a dating service in Los Angeles and thebeautiful young woman seemed to smile at anything and everything, but she wasa woman.She was beautiful.And Robert Dastrow was no longer poor or lonely.The second thing he did after establishing human companionship of sorts was toPage 41 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlbuild a machine shop in the basement of his new home back home in GrandIsland.Unfortunately Grand Island did not have dating services, since intheir lack of sophistication they called women providing companionship formoney a form of prostitution.But before he could get his machine shop running, he was visited by the threeyoung lawyers.They were all desperate.Mr.Palmer had just come back from hishoneymoon, which had ended in divorce.Mr.Rizzuto had spent a week in LasVegas and now his income for the next three years was owed to people whocollected either their money or pieces of the debtor's body.And Schwartz,violently adamant about the stupidity of the American investor and how idiotsruined the stock market, had just lost his home, everything in it, and hislast extra pair of shoes."Golly, how'd you fellas spend so much money so quickly?" laughed Robert."That's not the point," said Schwartz."The point is how we can make more.""The point is how we can make you even richer," said Palmer [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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