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...system of civil justice is, at times, a self-inflicted competitive disadvantage," Quayle declared at the outset. What followed was a somewhat pedestrian recital of recommendations for reforming the legal system from the President's Council on Competitiveness, which the Vice President chairs. Many of these ideas represent pro-business leftovers from the Reagan Administration. But Quayle's speech is likely to be remembered for the string of rhetorical questions he asked in conclusion: "Does America really need 70% of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system...
...this week's story, Jonathan and Sam have uncovered how the Bank of Credit & Commerce International used a "black network" of terrorists and self-appointed spies to serve as a one-stop shopping center for criminals, corrupt leaders and official intelligence agencies around the world. "The story at the outset was aconspiratorialist's dream," says Gwynne. "Almost all the wild things that were said back in February turned out to be true...
...lumiere du monde lost its way? Not yet, certainly. If the home of the Rights of Man could absorb one-third of its population growth by way of immigration between 1946 and 1982, its cherished identity seems rather safe. After all, 30 years ago, at the Fifth Republic's outset, the living embodiments of sophisticated Frenchness to much of the world were the film stars Yves Montand and Simone Signoret -- the former a native Italian from a town near Florence, the latter born in Germany to an Austrian-Polish-Jew ish father. As Cyrano himself might have crowed...
Tame from the Outset...
...outset, the council seemed to have the potential for a tame year on the campus political scene...