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...with appointments is who gets to do it. If it's the Governor, you've just shifted where the politics are." In some states merit selection has scarcely contained the efforts spent to put judges on the bench and keep them there. "Judicial campaigns are getting noisier, nastier and costlier," notes Georgetown Law Professor Roy Schotland, an authority on campaign spending...
Militarily, just as Viet Nam revealed the limits of our power to commit American troops to combat, so have the last few years demonstrated the practical limits to military spending. As armaments grow ever costlier, and more and more countries threaten to build their own nuclear weapons, the pressures for more effective cooperation will undoubtedly grow in this domain as well...
...other side, while a writer who prints a tip without checking it can argue that he is immune from malice charges because he had no doubt about the item's veracity. The provision for examining the journalist's state of mind ensured that libel suits would grow longer and costlier; the Herbert case, brought in 1974, has yet to go before a jury...
...White House last week said that the costlier House version would be "unacceptable." While differences on the bill could be worked out in a congressional conference committee, its chances of being passed again by the House are slim. Said Simpson: "If we toss this one on the trash heap, no politician is going to stick his tootsies in the fire on this baby for another ten or 20 years...
...Their average budget is about $20,000 to $40,000, and the majority are shot in a day or two. That sort of speed, and per dollar value, has its appeal for such film makers as John Landis, Mike Hodges and Bob Rafelson, who have worked within the slower, costlier Hollywood system. Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist) shot Billy Idol's Dancing with Myself in two days, edited it in a week, and saw it on the air two weeks after that. "You can have fun and experiment and try new things with rock video," Hooper says...