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...prosecute and defend cases before actual judges from the D.C. bench. Says Garland Poynter, head of education at the District of Columbia Jail: "Once you learn the system, you learn to respect it. It decreases frustration." Thanks to street law's practical and straightforward approach, even inmates with scant education often prove to be apt and alert pupils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Teaching Law Behind Bars | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...prime asset: an image as a non-politician who happens to be in politics. Buckley insisted his move was selfless -intended to prevent a first-ballot victory and permit delegates bound to a candidate whom they did not favor to vote their convictions on subsequent ballots. When a scant twelve delegates rallied to his tardily raised banner, Buckley withdrew to concentrate on his reelection race. Mused New York G.O.P. Chairman Richard Rosenbaum: "He got out just in time." Buckley stands to have trouble in November beating either Pat Moynihan or Bella Abzug, who are contesting for the Democratic nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WINNERS & LOSERS: Some Soared, Some Sank | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...back to economic health, with industry dutifully tagging along behind. So it has been with the present post-recession recovery, at least until recently. In July, according to the Commerce Department, retail sales fell 1.2%, continuing a softening that began to appear in April. Industrial production rose by a scant .2% last month, the smallest increase in nine months. At the same time, the Consumer Price Index, the nation's principal barometer of inflation, rose .5% in July, which translates into an annual rate of 6.2%-the same as in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RECOVERY: Slower, But on Track | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...controls. There is no statutory limit on medical fees, and only a bleary-eyed staff of nine medical-claims examiners to process 4,000 files daily. About 95% of all claims are paid without a hearing, and those bearing the certifications of a doctor and an employer are given scant scrutiny before they are paid and interred in a medieval record-keeping system bulging with 5? million case files. Concedes Robert Farmer, the bureau's claims director: "We're the biggest casualty insurance company in the world, but you can almost write your name backward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: Get Mine in Ohio | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

That would be a dazzling rise for a man who entered politics a scant six years ago as a "gofer" (gofer coffee, gofer a newspaper, gofer the car). Raised on a farm in Vienna (pronounced Vy-anna), Ga., 35 miles east of Plains, Joseph Lester Powell Jr. entered the Air Force Academy in 1961-and was expelled three years later for cheating on a history exam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Carter's Mouth | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

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