Word: reasonlies
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...generation trades its aluminum pop tops for corkscrews. By 1985 domestic wine is projected to be a $6 billion industry, up from $3 billion today. "Sales of the better wines can only be described as spectacular," says Alin Gruber, senior vice president of Sonoma Vineyards, "and the most important reason for it is that people who started with pop wines are moving...
Ironically, he adds, Cannon's victory for women's rights may end up hurting minority candidates who tend to score worse than whites on entrance exams. But the risk that discrimination suits brought by one group might backfire against another group is no reason to "simply shut the courthouse doors," says Tribe. That places too little faith in the courts to work out fair solutions. A more basic justification for a private right to sue is one recognized by the high court last week: if Congress passes a law against discrimination, there has got to be an effective...
White did not plead not guilty by reason of insanity, largely because no psychiatrist would say that he was sufficiently deranged. Schmidt asked the jury to find that White's "diminished mental capacity" left him unable to premeditate, deliberate, or harbor malice, the standards for first degree murder. One defense expert, Dr. Jerry Jones, told the jury that what White suffered from was "not the blues, what you and I call being depressed." It was genetically caused melancholia, "as if the world were viewed through black glasses." Another defense doctor refused to elevate White's condition...
...population from 1.5 in 1960. But to the chagrin of classical market theorist, no competitive fee cutting has occurred. Indeed, one physician calculates gloomily that every time a new doctor begins practice the nation's medical bills go up another $250,000 a year. Reason: the typical physician generates that much additional business in the tests and hospital admissions...
...machine whenever it became available. Then we required every patient who came to the hospital to submit their body to the machine, whether they needed it or not, to rapidly defray the purchase. I did not realize then that I was ripping off people." One reason for the emphasis on machinery: the prestige of a hospital is judged by the quality of the doctors on its staff, and the most talented doctors gravitate to the hospitals that boast the most advanced facilities...