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...Another fault of the book is its emphasis on the game story. Whereas Feinstein's interviews and anecdotes give the book its unique color and life, the game stories slow down the reader's pace. The reader is no longer reading a book, but a 464-page story on how Perdue managed to sneak one past Indiana...
...intellectual: "We are a legal-minded people and are prepared to examine everything in terms of the standards of international justice. That is an approach that Moscow officials will find difficult to oppose." After all, Gorbachev has often called for a Soviet state governed by law. He can hardly fault the Estonians for putting that principle to the test...
...group of consumers pounded a car with a sledgehammer last February to demonstrate their rage. Each state regulates insurance separately, a practice that contributes to wide price differences from place to place. Several Midwestern states have been able to control insurance costs to some degree by passing strong no-fault laws, under which drivers file claims with their own insurers instead of bringing expensive suits against one another...
...summer to learn that state-imposed surcharges had increased their car premiums by some 20%. The sudden increase reflected the state's need to bail out a fund that insures high-risk motorists and has fallen $2 billion in debt. While New Jersey lawmakers toughened the state's no-fault insurance laws, they remain too weak to prevent motorists from bringing costly lawsuits...
...rural and industrial heartland could prove resistant to an insurance revolt. Cushioned by strong no-fault plans in some states and, frequently, less crowded highways, Midwesterners have among the lowest auto premiums in the country. Even motorists in such cities as Cleveland and Chicago have lower rates than their counterparts elsewhere. Chicago has extensive mass transit, for one thing, and the city's drivers tend to file fewer lawsuits than drivers in Boston or Los Angeles...