Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the current system, about 40 cents of every auto-insurance dollar goes toward selling policies or administering claims, not for fixing cars or compensating the injured. Nearly all that wasted money could be saved. Virtually every disinterested party who looks at the system -- from the young law student Richard Nixon in 1936 to the considerably less conservative Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York decades later -- concludes the same thing: the system stinks. It could be radically improved...
...sell insurance one policy at a time when we require everyone, by law, to have it? Imagine the added cost if we had to sell Social Security insurance one policy at a time. Or if we outlawed the sale of group health insurance. Or if we required everyone to contribute to the defense budget -- as in effect we do -- and then created a special sales force to sign everybody...
...Lacayo began a seven-year free-lance career during which he wrote about theater, film and TV for the New York Times and other publications. Since joining TIME in 1984, he has contributed to nearly every section of the magazine. During a three-year stint as the Law section writer, he found time to profile author Susan Sontag and survey Hispanic culture for TIME's special issue on that topic...
Part of the allure springs from the subject, which plays upon the mysterious fascination that outlaws and gangsters have always held for law-abiding American citizens. In this, Billy is a native son of his place and time, a poor section of the Bronx in 1935, which is distinguished in his eyes only by the fact that the famous Dutch Schultz grew up there. In truth, Schultz still runs a beer drop in the vicinity, even though Prohibition has been repealed: "We were honored to know that our neighborhood was good enough for one of his places, we were proud...
...Immigration Reform Act is an example of the disarray of current policy. Designed to control a huge influx of illegal immigrants, the law provided an opportunity for 3 million to 5 million aliens who had lived and worked in the U.S. since before 1982 to become permanent residents. It also established penalties for employers who knowingly hired illegal aliens, making it much more difficult for them to find jobs and provoking discrimination against job seekers who merely look like foreigners. But the law has not significantly reduced unauthorized immigration. The flow from the South continues at such a pace that...