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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people want to put back the overgrown regulatory thicket that grew during the 1960s and 1970s. The U.S. was clearly due for a round of regulatory rollbacks, especially in light of the relatively minimal intervention that the Constitution seemed to contemplate when, for example, it authorized federal regulation of commerce "with foreign nations, and among the several States . . ." At the time, the Constitution's framers championed a free-market system with little Government interference. Says W. John Swartz, president of the Santa Fe Railway: "The Founding Fathers would be astonished at the amount of rules we operate under today. Regulators...
...took a terrible beating for years," Lawson says, drinking in the day. "Somewhere back in here is Melvin Belli's office." He sweeps an arm round San Francisco. "I sat there. He said, 'No remedy. No money in it.' I went to the best-known attorneys, the highest priced. They said by and large you don't win against the police department. They didn't understand that I knew I could beat them on my own turf, the media. Most people who can communicate, communicate. Those who can't, carry guns. I thought surely at some point sanity would prevail...
...concerned." Translation: Kim, who once ran for President and won 46% of the vote, is still too large a threat to the ruling party to risk restoring him to full political activity. Finally, Chun promised to order the release of nearly all the 300 demonstrators arrested during the current round of protests but indicated that the fate of some 3,000 other political prisoners could not be so easily resolved...
...past several years, most followed by protracted legal preliminaries, prompted fears about the effectiveness of the First Amendment. Now that the dust has settled, however, it seems clear that the news media have prevailed, at least in the court of law. While many news organizations have lost their first-round libel verdicts, the media have won most major cases that went through the full appellate process. Moreover, while juries have rendered more than 30 verdicts in excess of $1 million since 1980, according to the Libel Defense Resource Center, not one judgment has topped even half that sum after appeals...
...forms do not usually emerge with such neat birth dates, but consider Aug. 1, 1981. On that day a cable channel called MTV made its debut, offering a round-the-clock barrage of music videos -- short films set to rock songs and produced by record companies to promote their performers. These imaginative, visually arresting clips soon caught on; rock music was suddenly something to look at, not just listen to. Such performers as Duran Duran and Cyndi Lauper rode to success on them; top Hollywood directors, including John Landis and Brian De Palma, tried their hand at making them...