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...Thomas Reiss...
...Fern E. Reiss...
...battled with MCI Communications, GTE Sprint and other rivals. At the same time, though, the average cost of local service rose by 8%. Customers were befuddled by multipage bills, bewildered about whom to call for repairs and bedeviled by delays in the installation of new telephone lines. Said Jack Reiss, 83, a retired salesman in Harrisburg, Pa.: "I don't know why they broke up Ma Bell, but I wish they would put it back together...
...binding precedent. A political conservative worries more about results than the judicial process and might not hesitate to disregard the findings of his predecessors. On Reagan's list of appointees, both types of conservatives can be found (see following story). If Reagan picks ideologues, says N.Y.U.'s Reiss, "God knows what could happen. They could overrule anything they didn't like. They could rewrite constitutional law and history...
Says Steven Reiss of New York University Law School, a former clerk for Brennan: "Calling this the Burger Court is a complete misnomer. He is the least analytical and the least astute, and he has the least time for the substantive work of the court." Burger has irked some of his colleagues, who suspect that he has used his power to assign the written opinions of the court to reward his friends and punish his enemies...