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...simply doesn't have the judicial experience that should be required for a seat on the highest court in the nation. He only wrote one major opinion in his single year on a court. Before that, his controversial four-year tenure as chair of the EEOC was marked by lax investigation of discrimination complaints which led even conservative commentators to call him an inveterate brown-noser (Ronald Reagan took immense pleasure in seeing the EEOC flounder...
...current lax regulatory climate, which the Bush Administration fosters, lawsuits often represent the only way to enforce corporate accountability. As consumer lawyer Linda Lipsen says, "You can't stand Corporate America before a blackboard and have them write 100 times: 'I will not put issues of greed over issues of public safety.' " The cozy pattern of self-regulation among some professional groups, like doctors, only compounds the litigation problem. Legal critic Charles Peters, the editor of the Washington Monthly, argues that this means "there is no effective discipline for misconduct by a physician other than the malpractice suit...
...Washington lawmakers called for tighter regulation of the $2.2 trillion government securities market. Declared Congressman Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who chairs a subcommittee that oversees Treasury bond trading: "The issue is the integrity of the most important financial marketplace in the world." Markey blamed lax regulation for permitting Salomon to display "a cavalier disregard for the rules." Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut demanded that Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady conduct a "full review" of the department's auction rules. With a $300 billion federal budget deficit to finance, Washington cannot afford to scare any bond buyers away...
...checkups, gynecological care and, finally, to deliver their young. Last year more than 18,000 babies were born in this building, roughly 1 out of every 200 babies born in the U.S. "Sometimes they are lined up in the hallways and stacked up for C-sections like planes at LAX, six or seven deep," says obstetrician-gynecologist David Grimes...
...appointed by Mayor Tom Bradley and police chief Daryl F. Gates issued a 228-page report on the case. The commission, headed by Warren Christopher, Deputy Secretary of State in the Carter Administration, charged the nation's third largest police force with tolerating racism, excessive use of force, and lax discipline, and recommended sweeping changes...