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What serious retrenching has occurred so far has been highly selective. Says Georgia State University Economist Donald Ratajczak, speaking about the status of retail sales: "The discount and the high quality lines are good; the in-between is dead. Top and bottom are where the action is." Translation: in marked contrast with their behavior during past economic slowdowns, people are not closing their wallets entirely but are scrambling for bargains, on the one hand, and, on the other, scooping up top quality, long-lasting goods at any price...
They also seem to say Texas, home of the country's best bootmakers. At 85, Enid Justin, owner of the Nocona Boot Co., remains the feisty matriarch of the Lone-Star State bootmaking community. Back in 1925, when she founded her business, she cut and stitched the boots herself and peddled them all over Texas from her Model A Ford. Today her workers produce 1,500 pairs a day, though it still takes some 200 separate steps to make a single boot. Another oldtimer is T.C. ("Buck") Steiner, 79, a former rodeo star and owner of the Austin-based...
...mountains of evidence and may take months or years to resolve. Increasingly common, such civil cases pose a dilemma. They are generally within the broad definition given by the U.S. Supreme Court to "Suits at common law." Thus they come under the jury-trial guarantee of the Seventh Amendment. (State courts are not bound by the Seventh, but most states have similar guarantees.) Such cases add to the burdens on the already overloaded courts. More important, if the jury cannot understand the issues, the right to a jury may conflict with something more basic, the right to a fair trial...
...jury actually selected [for a big case] is rarely a true cross section," said Burger in a speech to state chief justices. "Overwhelmingly, a great many of the people best qualified to sit on juries are those most eager to escape jury duty." Usually they succeed. With excuses ranging from "bad sleeping habits" to "poor frame of mind," every potential juror who did not want to sit through the Memorex case was excused. There were 118 in all. In many long cases, anyone who cannot get away from work for months at a time or who earns more than jury...
...good portion of next year's 133,000 Michigan high school graduates to vote in the 1980 presidential election. The new law provides that high school principals or their deputies can issue registration cards on the spot and act as registrars to certify that a student meets the state's minimum voter eligibility requirements. (In order to vote, students must be 18, U.S. citizens and residents of the state for 30 days...