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...deregulation revolution began under Presidents Ford and Carter, but the Reagan Administration embraced the idea with energetic zeal. Hack, chop, crunch! were the sounds during the early 1980s as Reagan's regulatory appointees stripped away decades' worth of business restraints like so much prickly underbrush on the President's ranch. The expense of complying with federal regulations, Reagan claimed, had cost Americans between $50 billion and $150 billion a year. After only ten days in office, he put a freeze on more than 170 pending regulations. A drastic pullback of Government involvement in business followed, especially in federal attempts...
...their zeal to book new business, some lenders gloss over the fact that failure to pay up can mean the loss of the borrower's home. In a survey of 91 lenders around the country, two consumer groups, the Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union, found a variety of other alleged abuses. Some lenders failed to disclose that low introductory, or "teaser," interest rates would later be increased. Others did not publicize the fact that their loans required large lump sums as final payments. Last month New York City Consumer Affairs Commissioner Angelo Aponte warned a dozen local banks...
Adolf Hitler boasted that the zeal of French collaborators spared him scarce manpower. Nazi records show 2200 German Gestapo agents were sent to France. Local police helped deport 79,000 Jews...
Journalists, a cynical lot by nature, are often skeptical of press awards. As prizes have proliferated, they note, so has a certain genre of newspaper story: the multipart series that takes on a big subject, pursues it with crusading zeal and seems to run on forever. Such journalistic tomes frequently seem created as much to please award judges as to satisfy readers. "We're thinking about putting the following helpful advisory over them," syndicated Humor Columnist Dave Barry wrote this month. "'Caution! Journalism Prize Entry! Do Not Read...
...much ethical as legal -- of whether the U.S. is wrong to use Soviet-supplied evidence in its pursuit of Linnas and other accused Nazi war criminals. The honorable sheriff in the westerns, after all, protected even the most despicable criminal from the savage mob. In short, in its zeal to see a Nazi atrocity punished, is the U.S. guilty of trimming its standards of justice...