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...Carter expects criticism from the left and from the right; he may even welcome it as solidifying his own position in the political center. But now he has received a stinging rebuke from someone who shares roughly the same middle ground. In a near unprecedented attack from a party regular, Democratic Senator Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois has called Carter "embarrassingly weak" in both domestic and foreign policy. He added that the President's staff is "bush league...
...times are overripe for a national publication about lawyers, and maybe even three. As the country grows ever more litigious, high-stakes law has ceased to be the preserve of large New York and Washington firms; practitioners now need to know on a regular basis what their colleagues in the rest of the country are up to. The potential market is vast: almost 500.000 lawyers (median annual income: $30.000) and 30.000 fresh law school graduates every year. To turn these prospects into profits, the three papers have evolved different editorial strategies...
...came from Vere Harmsworth's Associated Newspapers, the British backer of Esquire. "Our basic philosophy is nothing about the law. everything about lawyers and lawyering," says Brill. He promises investigative reporting on pettifoggery, news of the constantly shifting tides of power and prestige among law firms, and a regular column critiquing the performance of attorneys before the U.S. Supreme Court. American Lawyer Publisher Jay Kriegel, once an aide to former New York City Mayor John Lindsay, claims 9,000 subscribers now at $19.50 a year and hopes eventually to have as many...
Just about the most unpopular idea was Jimmy Carter's thwarted proposal to impose a new tax on domestic crude oil that would sharply raise the retail price. U.S. prices are low by world standards; a gallon of regular gas that sells in New York City for 78? costs $1.55 in Tel Aviv, $1.83 in Bonn and $2.09 in Paris. Economists, bankers and independent study groups like the Trilateral Commission agree that substantially higher prices would drive home the reality of the energy crisis and the need to save. For that to occur prices would have to rise drastically...
...racing experience began at Sugarloaf in Maine, where her family took regular inland trips from their home in coastal Rockland. There she participated in Eastern threes and fours races with skiers up to 13 years...