Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 have a virtual monopoly on presenting cases in high court. Under the government's proposal, any lawyer would be free to present cases in court after obtaining a "certificate of competence." Many consumer-interest groups and solicitors cheered the plan, while barristers promised to fight...
...through here and at other spots on their way in. If we don't get a handle on Third World debt, we'll be overrun by Mexicans coming here to work. It's got to be one of our main priorities . . . Bill Bradley and I disagree about how to deal with the debt problem. He wants to force the banks to restructure debt. I say that's probably unconstitutional, and even if it isn't, the only way we can do things like that is through voluntary negotiation. But Bradley and I are both convinced the way out involves growth...
...they really reform their economic system," he says, "they'll be more secure at home and thus less inclined to military adventurism abroad." Baker's only worry, it seems, is that Gorbachev's days may be numbered. But as long as Gorbachev retains control, Baker is determined to deal wherever...
...were almost over when I called it the Me decade. I don't deal in predictions, but you appeal to my vanity, so I'll talk about it anyway. I think that in the '90s we'll probably see a good bit of relearning, even though it might seem boring. It's in the attitudes of college students now. I sense they are already voluntarily putting the brakes on the sexual revolution -- not screeching to a halt, and not just because of AIDS...
Liberals have to understand that American patience with violent crime has been spent. Failure to deal effectively with crime has increased the public appetite for the death penalty. Conservatives must see that this society can be hard, even implacable, against criminals without killing them. If politicians will lower their voices and quit pandering to our worst fears and baser instincts, the search for common ground can begin...