Word: corner
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...produced plenty of worrisome side effects. One of them is a rising concentration of market share among a few large companies -- a shift toward oligopolies that could already be stifling the very competition that deregulation was supposed to stimulate. Another ominous trend is the increased evidence of corporate corner cutting when it comes to safeguarding the health and safety of workers and customers. Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, writing in the New York Review of Books, bemoans a "climate of deregulation pushed to dangerous extremes." Result: the beginnings of a blistering debate about the impact of the decontrol...
When a major ruling is announced or a Justice resigns, as Lewis Powell did last week, public attention briefly turns to the court. But for the most part the Justices work in a hushed corner of the public arena. An average of 5,000 cases a year are submitted for their review, and they normally select 150 to 180 on which to hear oral arguments and render written decisions. The Justices begin that process at regularly scheduled discussions. Usually just after 3 p.m. on Wednesdays or at 9:30 a.m. on Fridays, they enter a spacious, oak- paneled conference room...
...record where you reside and work, how much money you make, the names of your children, your medical and psychiatric history, your creditworthiness and indebtedness, your arrest record, the number of bathrooms in your home, the phone numbers you dial and even the time you last used a street-corner bank machine...
Readers with a beef against their local newspaper usually have little recourse other than writing an angry letter to the editor. But people with complaints about their local TV or radio station have a powerful ally in their corner: the Federal Government. Every broadcast station in the country must abide by the fairness doctrine, a Federal Communications Commission rule that requires broadcasters to air contrasting views on controversial public issues. A station that runs an editorial opposing nuclear power, for instance, must give the pronuclear side a chance to express its views. If the station fails...
...intensified. Now Pakistan insists that the U.S. is responsible for its defense. The Reagan Administration is concerned that if it turns its back on Islamabad, Zia might do the same to the rebels. Says Noor Husain, a veteran Pakistani defense analyst: "The U.S. has got itself in a tight corner...