Word: public-interest
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...second round of hearings opened Thursday, it was plain that Baird was a woman without a constituency. She had no track record with women's groups, Washington insiders or public-interest groups. Not even professional women with children rushed to her defense...
...shouldn't discount the contributions of lawyers. Most of those on the political left who defend the profession point to public-interest law as its saving grace. For the left, corporate law seems to be nearly indefensible...
...engaged in a far-ranging plot to prevent an honest investigation into whether American POWS are still being held in Vietnam, for fear it would expose drug-smuggling operations they conducted to finance a secret war in Laos. Perot may have got that idea from Christic Institute, a leftish public-interest law firm that filed a suit making similar charges (the suit was dismissed in 1988 by a federal judge in Miami, who forced Christic to pay $1 million in court costs as damages for making frivolous charges). The generally conservative Perot and the left- leaning Christic are the oddest...
There are a number of explanations for theexodus to corporate law: the quest for prestige,remarkable starting salaries compared with the lowpay in public-interest work, the difficulty ofgetting a job with a big public-interestorganization and the pressure to pay tuitionloans...
...cool, rational tools of by-the- numbers policy analysis, the legacy of "the energetic reform movements launched by Ralph Nader and others in the 1960s." Much like the Progressives early in the century, the Naderite reformers distrusted the messiness of mass democracy and placed their faith instead in public-interest litigation and legislation. But in another illustration of the law of unintended consequences, business interests learned how to dominate these newly cerebral public policy debates, while average citizens became dangerously alienated from the two-party governing class in Washington...