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Bamett, in Humane Studies Review (WinterAmendment 1987-88), Institute for Humane Studies, 4400
University Dr., Fairfax, Va. 22030.
Over the years, most of the 10amendments in the Bill of Rights have been extensively debated, in and out of the courts. Yet the Ninth Amendment, which states that rights not enumerated in the Constitution are "retained the people," remains relatively untested. It has never been used to decide a Supreme Court case. Today some conservatives (e.g.,...
the Eter- nal, you'll sink me with you."
"The 'Van Buren Jinx': Vice Presidents Need Not Beware" George Sugiovanni, in Presi-
As Candidates dential Studies Quarterly (Winter 1988), Cen- ter for the Study of the Presidency, 208 East 75th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
As George Bush continues his drive for the White House, he faces a barrier that has long seemed all but insurmountable: the "VanBuren jinx." The last sitting vice president to be elected chief executive was M...
Southern Democrats in a party split that enabled Abraham
Lincoln to lead his Republicans to victory. Charles Fairbanks was so dis-
liked his boss, Theodore Roosevelt, that in 1908 TR swung the G.0.R
nomination to his secretary of war, William Howard Taft.
The vice presidents' fortunes, Sirgiovanni argues, began to change
during the 1950s. Dwight Eisenhower's vice president, Richard Nixon,
transformed the office. Meeting with heads of state and serving as acting
president twice when Ike was...
Kathleen Sylvester, in Governing (April 1988), 1414 22nd St. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20037.
The 200,000-member Navajo tribe in Arizona owns 16 million acres. Its Tribal Council manages a $209 million budget. Yet the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which oversees the nation's 507 recognized tribes of Indians and Alaska natives, rules on such matters as cutting trees and the leasing of property on the reservation. Navajo police cannot investigate rapes and 17 other "major crimesu-these are under...
Kathleen Sylvester, in Governing (April 1988), 1414 22nd St. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20037.
The 200,000-member Navajo tribe in Arizona owns 16 million acres. Its Tribal Council manages a $209 million budget. Yet the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which oversees the nation's 507 recognized tribes of Indians and Alaska natives, rules on such matters as cutting trees and the leasing of property on the reservation. Navajo police cannot investigate rapes and 17 other "major crimesu-these are under...
IODICALS
FOREIGN POLICY & DEFENSE
whose commitments exceed their armed strength usually experience vigor- ous domestic opposition to any ambitious new foreign policy initiatives.
Since the 1960s, argues Huntington, director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs, the United States has suffered from a "Lippmann gapw-its responsibilities extend beyond its military reach. For example, the Carter Doctrine of 1980, which committed Washington to keeping the Persian Gulf area free of...
Captain Douglas K. Zimrnerman, U.S.
Army, Military Review, (Feb. 1988)
USACGSC, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 66027-
6910.
The U.S. Army, for more than a decade, has been trying to put more active duty soldiers in combat units, fewer in rear-echelon supply and maintenance outfits-"more tooth, less tail."
Captain Zimrnerman, a systems analyst, argues that this policy-cou- pled with low reserves of men and materiel and unrealistic Pentagon mobi- lization plans-has made it unlikely that...
almost two-thirds, sharply curbing promotions from within. Ca- reer paths will increasingly lead from firm to firm, both for the would-be bosses and the specialists, who may seek to move to a larger or more prestigious employer even without a gain in rank. As Drucker notes, while "bassoonists presumably neither want nor expect to be anything but bas- soonists," they might aspire to play for a better orchestra.
Stnpp.hgGenes "Biotechnology and the Regulation Hydra" Peter W....
"Air Safety, Deregulation, and Public Policy" by
Steven A. Morrison and Clifford Winston, in The
BrookingsReview (Winter 1988),Brookings In-
stitution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Wash-
ington, D.C. 20036.
In 1978, Congress stripped away the comfortable regulatory cocoon within which U.S. airlines had operated for 40 years. Decisions on "economic" matters (routes, fares, launching new carriers), long made the Civil Aeronautics Board, were left to the executives in the...
Horst H. Stipp, in
American Demographics (Feb. 1988), 108 North Cayuga St., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850.
Advertisers are slowly discovering an untapped market: pre-teens.
Stipp, director of social research at NBC, reports that U.S. children "buy and influence" many more products than advertisers (and parents) suspect. According to James McNeal, author of Children as Consumers (1987), the average weekly allowance for four- to 12-year-olds is $3 a week, or $157 a year. Thus, the more than 20 don...