Word: reforms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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FRED THOMPSON Actor/Sen. could stick it to Gore in Tenn. For election reform. Ladies' man with gravitas...
...negative in this race, when his opponent's unfavorables may already be high enough to do her in. Otherwise reliably Democratic women were willing to vote for the otherwise unpalatable Giuliani because of their distaste for Hillary's assumption of derivative power, her high-handed bungling of health-care reform, her seeming deal with her husband for silence in exchange for career advancement, aggravated by the famous sight of their dancing on the beach in the Virgin Islands and, more recently, of her giggling like a newlywed after their first night in the new house in Chappaqua. Lazio may think...
Even as he tries to push forward with his grand vision of democratic reform, a malign undertow draws Wahid back into the corrupt old ways of Suharto and his cronies. Financial scandals have been creeping closer to his inner circle. Now his former masseur is being investigated for allegedly embezzling $4.7 million from the state rice-distribution agency...
...part by the executives who are often defendants in personal-injury lawsuits, promises to be "a President who is tough enough to take on the trial bar." Al Gore and the Democratic Party, who collect big contributions from trial lawyers, supported President Clinton's veto of a 1996 tort-reform bill backed by business interests. Advocacy groups are already running dueling TV ads. One suggests that lawmakers who would limit damages in lawsuits are out to deny victims of asbestos-related illnesses their just compensation, while another depicts trial lawyers as sharks in a feeding frenzy...
Critics offer a solution: tort reform. They have been pushing for years for restrictions that would make it harder for trial lawyers to collect large punitive-damage awards, which often far exceed the actual damages. Forty-five states have enacted civil-justice-reforms laws that limit such awards; and the Republican-backed Litigation Fairness Act, which is pending in the Senate, would make lawsuits filed by the government subject to the same procedures and laws that apply to injured persons...