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More disturbing still is the sort of "revolving door" syndrome that specialty judges and courts would most likely exhibit. The "revolving door" is dubbed as such due to the manner in which people tend to move between the top levels of industry and the regulatory departments of the executive branch; for instance, the president's appointees to the Treasury Department tend to be top business leaders. Problems arise when those appointees then have to help control and regulate an industry to which they are often inextricably linked...
DIED. CLYDE SUKEFORTH, 98, Brooklyn Dodgers catcher, coach and scout who brought Jackie Robinson to the majors in 1947; in Waldoboro, Maine. Dodgers president Branch Rickey dispatched Sukeforth to scout Negro League shortstop Robinson despite an unwritten rule against black players. Sukeforth was also known to Brooklyn fans as the coach who in 1951 sent pitcher Ralph Branca rather than Carl Erskine in to face the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson in the ninth inning of the pennant play-off. On the second pitch, Thomson launched the "shot heard 'round the world," winning the pennant for the Giants...
...last mile" delivery service, combined with the low $15 average order, as the service's biggest flaws. Yet Park, 28, claims the business plan is on track and says the layoffs were a result of increased efficiency. If things were dire, he counters, why would he have opened a branch in San Diego just weeks after layoffs elsewhere? "I'm more confident about our business model today than when we first started," he says...
...move against Lee. Energy Secretary Richardson was pushing for the prosecution of Lee - on any grounds that could be found. The government might not be able to prove Lee was a spy, but he was certainly sloppy with secrets. "There was a tremendous amount of pressure on the Executive Branch to do something and to deal with what appeared to be very substantial security breaches," says Michael Bromwich, who was the Justice Department's inspector general at the time...
...neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are solely or even partly responsible for the shape of the economy. The rise of the new economy and the increased productivity that its technology brought were more responsible than anything either branch of government could devise. Yet it was the Republicans' angry prodding--and the occasional shut-down of the government--that forced Clinton's hand in addressing fiscal responsibility...