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# Nov/​Dec 1985 

Vol. 9 No. 6 

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##### Features 

#### [Stretching Delaney Till It Breaks ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/stretching-delaney-till-it-breaks)

By Richard M. Cooper 

#### [The Pirates Of Pennzoil: A Comic Opera Made Possible by a Grant from the Texaco Corporation ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/pirates-pennzoil-comic-opera-made-possible-grant-texaco-corporation)

By [Richard A. Epstein](https://www.cato.org/people/richard-epstein) 

#### [An Overdose of Concern: Child Abuse and the Overreporting Problem ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/overdose-concern-child-abuse-overreporting-problem)

By Douglas J. Besharov 

#### [DOES Protection Really Protect? ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/does-protection-really-protect)

By David G. Tarr 

#### [Oversteer: Twenty Years of Federal Auto Policy ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/oversteer-twenty-years-federal-auto-policy)

By Frank Gregorsky 

##### Letters 

##### [Nitrites and the FDA ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/nitrites-fda)

##### [Onshore Oil Leases ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/onshore-oil-leases)

##### [Nuclear Decommissioning ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/nuclear-decommissioning)

##### [Computer Prices and Antitrust ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/computer-prices-antitrust)

##### Perspectives 

##### [Antitrust: Fear of Fairness ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/antitrust-fear-fairness)

##### [The Glacial Water Project ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/glacial-water-project)

##### [Nature’s Own Subsidies? ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/natures-own-subsidies)

##### Readings 

##### [Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/takings-private-property-power-eminent-domain)

##### [The Economist’s View of the World: Government, Markets, and Public Policy ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/economists-view-world-government-markets-public-policy)

##### [Urban Transit: The Private Challenge to Public Transportation ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/urban-transit-private-challenge-public-transportation)

##### [Impacts of Rail Deregulation on Marketing of Kansas Wheat ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/impacts-rail-deregulation-marketing-kansas-wheat)

##### [Contracting Problems and the Adoption of Regulatory Cartels ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/contracting-problems-adoption-regulatory-cartels)

##### [Cost-Minimizing Regulation of Sulfur Emissions: Regional Gains in Electric Power ](/regulation/nov/dec-1985/cost-minimizing-regulation-sulfur-emissions-regional-gains-electric-power)

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