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The Conservatives are finding it much easier to rally popular vocal support for deregulation of the legal profession. Thatcher's plan calls for abolishing the traditional division between solicitors, who deal directly with the public, and barristers, who must be "instructed" by solicitors before taking on a case and who...
When George Bush became President last week, he inherited that mountainous load, along with a 74-month economic boom, the longest peacetime expansion in the modern era. Bush, who once ridiculed Reagan's policies as "voodoo economics," must now confront both sides of the Reaganomics legacy. In doing so, he...
Many economists have been staring through a veil of mathematics that can further distort what they see. "Economics research has become more a game of chess than a search for understanding reality," says economist David Colander of Middlebury College in Vermont. Colander and Arjo Klamer, a visiting professor at the...
On its face, First Ladyhood looks easy enough: one gets to live in a big house with a large yard, travel a lot and throw fancy dinner parties. Someone else cleans up. But the job -- unpaid and with no days off -- has its pitfalls. The person a pillow away from...
They must have seemed pipe dreams at the Pasadena Playhouse, where Hackman took acting classes in the mid-'50s; the school voted him, and fellow student Dustin Hoffman, Least Likely to Succeed. A decade of small parts and menial jobs kept him going until 1964, when he scored in the...