When Freyer Architects, a Manhattan firm, renovated a fourth-floor apartment in an Upper West Side brownstone and added a penthouse on the roof, the firm was asked for "sunlight, a garden and ecological friendliness," Warren Freyer said.
Further pressure was coming from the business community, it concluded, with three out of four councils reporting firms were asking for additional support.
Allstate officials said that also in 1996, Mr. Velella's law firm was asking them for auto insurance work, and over the next few years the firm received a total of $100,000 to $200,000 in fees from Allstate.
Law firm Urmann (U+C) is acting on behalf of Swiss copyright protection firm the Archive, and is asking for one-off payments of 250 euros (£210).
Children's Rights Inc., a national group, is seeking $7.77 million; Lawyers for Children, which specializes in foster care in New York City, is requesting $122,499; and the law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel is asking for $1.41 million.
The company behind the pottery firms Wedgwood, Waterford and Royal Doulton is asking for views on a £25m revamp of its premises in Stoke-on-Trent.
It is asking for the firm to be fined, for its victims to be compensated, and for an injunction against the company and its partners.
The Wall Street firm Bear Sterns has said the impact of what the WGA is asking for is "negligible".
Ignition got a big chance to prove its artistic bona fides early on, when the firm was asked to submit designs for a relatively high-profile movie, "Premonition," starring Sandra Bullock.
I personally like this approach — some other polling firms are asking voters for their opinions of candidates they know next to nothing about — but it does mean that the CBS News polls cannot always be compared directly to those of other polling firms.
