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...Conservatives are finding it much easier to rally popular vocal support for deregulation of the legal profession. Thatcher's plan calls for abolishing the traditional division between solicitors, who deal directly with the public, and barristers, who must be "instructed" by solicitors before taking on a case and who have a virtual monopoly on presenting cases in high court. Under the government's proposal, any lawyer would be free to present cases in court after obtaining a "certificate of competence." Many consumer-interest groups and solicitors cheered the plan, while barristers promised to fight...
Associate Professor of Economics Lawrence B. Lindsey, a supply-side economist who has been a vocal proponent of lower taxes, will become the associate director of the office of policy development, an executive branch agency which advises the president on the economy and other domestic issues...
Probably the most vocal calls for harsher measures come from the Jewish settlers in the territories, who have increasingly become the main target of Palestinian stones. For months the 70,000 settlers, who claim the West Bank as their biblical right, have complained that the army is failing to protect them. When Shamir started to speak at a memorial service this month for two Israeli victims of the intifadeh, mourners yelled, "You are doing nothing!" Nor did the new battle order satisfy the settlers, who have demanded such extreme reprisals as shooting all stone throwers on sight. "For them...
City Councillor William H. Walsh, the council's most vocal critic of rent control, said HRE uses "a very mysterious formula" to determine the increases and that he has repeatedly "urged the rent control board to look into the situation...
...court's last major abortion ruling in 1986, Justice Lewis Powell, who was part of the pro-choice majority, has been replaced by Justice Anthony Kennedy. Choice advocates feel Kennedy would not have been appointed unless President Reagan believed he was willing to strike down Roe. The increasingly vocal right-to- life supporters, smelling possible victory for their cause, were delighted by the court's decision to hear the Missouri case...