Like chefs, too many attorneys can spoil a good thing, while certainly charging for their time handing out those legalisms. Only the uninitiated and those with a frail grasp of the big picture ...

Threshing out all the vague legalisms will require at least three years; in the meantime, the profits of many companies may well be tied up in Brazil. Little matter. Brazil’s economy has become ...

For its principal witness the committee summoned Dean Acheson, who reveled in legalisms and implied time & again that the problem had really not been worth his attention until recently.

When the stakes are so high, agreements on paper, signatures, assurances, legalisms of all sorts, are worthless. Worse still, the whole concept of coming to a deal qualifying power proves only ...