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Nevertheless, the imposition of stricter limits on business entertainment deductions would almost certainly have an effect on corporate folkways. No longer would executives be able to sit down to three-star French fare without thinking of the bottom line. Charles Clotfelter, a professor of economics at Duke University, anticipates that the result will be a healthy dose of moderation. "It's still important for businesses to entertain," he says. "It always has been. But I expect to see entertaining on a much less grandiose scale." So, presumably, does Ronald Reagan...
...private organizations that monitor hate groups point out that the recent violence comes at a time when the membership in fringe cults seems to be declining. The FBI says it keeps a close watch on fewer than a dozen radical-right groups. The A.D.L. estimates that, thanks to stricter state laws, the Klan has declined to about 6,500 members, although the Anti- Klan Network puts the number as high as 9,000. Says Irwin Suall, A.D.L. director of fact-finding: "These terror gangs are resorting to violence precisely because they find themselves politically and socially rejected...
...least a score of prior cases from Alaska to Georgia involving school searches, lower court decisions have been sending what Thomson calls "a mixed message." A Louisiana court ruled for the stricter standard of probable cause; a few other states have cast school officials in loco parentis (in the place of a parent), able to search pretty much at will. But most lower courts have presaged the Supreme Court ruling for reasonable grounds, allowing the kind of search Choplick made...
...homebuilding boom. California's Mattel bounced back from last year's worst-performers list by turning away from electronic games in favor of dolls like those in its deliriously successful Masters of the Universe line. Rollins Environmental Services, a Wilmington, Del., firm that handles industrial waste, benefited from stricter federal rules involving the disposal of such hazardous chemicals as polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB. Shares in Cowles Broadcasting, the Daytona Beach, Fla., chain of TV stations, shot up after the company agreed to be acquired by H & C Communications...
...majority on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals that voted last month to dismiss a libel suit against Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, whose Washington column appears in about 180 newspapers. In his 37-page concurring opinion Bork suggested that the courts ought to be stricter about the rash of libel suits. He did not mention General William Westmoreland's $120 million suit against CBS--in which the general's attorney vows to "dismantle" CBS News--or former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's $50 million suit against Time Inc. Bork examined the conflicting rights...