According to the report, Dr. Brown was Salazar's personal physician and was being paid a monthly retainer to work with the Oregon Project athletes.
In addition to 3,000 native scientists, the country may have two to four Russians on retainer to work on its nukes, of which it may have one or two small exemplars.
Brad Grey, who has denied knowing that Mr. Pellicano did anything illegal on his behalf in either the Shandling case or the Zenga case, only admitted to paying Mr. Pellicano quite a bit more than his $25,00 retainer to work for him on both cases.
With tradesmen on retainer, he worked from an office, a hole-in-the-wall above a florist's shop.
For much of the 1980s Mr. Springsteen kept the E Street Band on retainer while working with other musicians.
They are also cutting back on "development" contracts, where writers were kept on retainer while working on new programmes.Now Hollywood is bracing itself again: actors are soon due to start negotiating with studios to renew their contract, which expires in June 2008.
The core group of advisers -- some on retainer, some working without pay and all wielding wide influence with the campaign -- include Mr. Rosenblith, Mr. Thorne and Mr. Whouley, as well as John Marttila, a strategist who first worked with Mr. Kerry in 1970; Tom Kiley, a veteran Boston pollster; and a number of friends and former staff members who are involved in this campaign to varying degrees.
If unbundling fees means firms having to pay a fat retainer for advisory work, so be it.
A spokesman for Jane's, Richard Coltart, said that Mr. Morison was not an employee of the weekly but that he did receive a yearly retainer for his work as United States editor of Jane's Fighting Ships.
Helping them negotiate and find their way through the complicated maze of a new company and culture, having an open dialogue with them and the firm to ensure alignment and redressal of teething problems are all part of the retainer firm's work.
