Former employees, acquaintances and peers say that, in person, he does not fit his villainous nickname, and characterize him as friendly and intelligent.
He has helped not only family, but friends, employees, acquaintances and even strangers in need.
The search engine has become an automatic first step to learn more about an employee, acquaintance or prospective partner.
With an intellectual brilliance only partly leavened by wit, and a veneer of aristocratic arrogance polished by mustache wax, Acheson became a natural target, especially after he defended the honor of his employee and acquaintance Alger Hiss from allegations that he was a Russian spy.
Mr. Chung said he felt compelled to go to 40 to 50 weddings or funerals a year for friends, employees and business acquaintances, with his donations averaging $85.
They comprised university students, other hospital employees, and their acquaintances.
Among the surgeons, however, a majority (55%) agreed to assigning priority to hospital employees or personal acquaintances.
In Washington, Hay oversaw a staff of eighty employees, renewed his acquaintance with his friend Henry Adams, and substituted for Evarts at Cabinet meetings when the Secretary was out of town.
Their world is somewhat less monochrome than that of the Ndlovus: their children's school is integrated, and their firm's black employees and customers are acquaintances.
Acquaintances and former employees described Mr. Trotter as a quirky perfectionist, a constant boundary pusher (using unlikely items like pig ears, in the memory of one admiring former employee) and a sometimes difficult boss.
Soon after the Sterling partners — there are currently 10, according to the firm's Web site — opened their own accounts with Mr. Madoff beginning in 1985, they began opening accounts with him for friends, business acquaintances and Sterling employees.
