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...petroleum, natural gas, coal and nuclear-are either depleting or face strong public opposition, and new energy sources must be phased in before the old are totally exhausted. The surprising aspect of Energy Future is its optimistic assessment of the potential of solar energy and conservation to carry the load as those "new sources...
...underworld and the upperworld have converged in their morality over the past several decades. The underworld has not moved over to us, but we have moved in its direction." The victims, of course, are the honest taxpayers, who will have to fork over more and more to carry the load of the connivers and chiselers who pay less and less...
...More judges. This is an obvious step. The federal judiciary clearly needed more judges to cope with its overwhelming load, and last fall it got them from Congress: 152 new judgeships, a 30% increase, the largest ever...
...have laws on their books requiring that defendants go to trial within a specified period. However, these laws do not always work: they are vague and ambiguous, and judges are lax in enforcing them. When the laws do work, there is a need for more judges to handle the load and civil cases are backed up. Lawyers complain that they do not have time to prepare their cases, and that means that some prosecutions simply get dropped. Because of such arguments, the Federal Speedy Trial Act, expected to go into effect last month, has been postponed by Congress...
...years ago, a national commission on criminal justice recommended that plea bargaining be abolished by 1978. Today, it is still the method by which the vast majority of criminal cases are handled. It helps reduce the case load, but it also reflects the fact that the system cannot handle the flood of litigation. Says a Sandusky, Ohio, attorney, Thomas Murray Jr.: "When you talk about one case in 50 getting to trial, the system is not breaking down. It has broken down...