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# Fall 1997 

Vol. 20 No. 4 

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##### Features 

#### [Congress and the Clinton OMB ](/regulation/fall-1997/congress-clinton-omb)

By Susan E. Dudley 

#### [Prosecutorial Discretion ](/regulation/fall-1997/prosecutorial-discretion)

By Roscoe B. Starek, III 

#### [Wages, Water, and Stagnation ](/regulation/fall-1997/wages-water-stagnation)

By Craig S. Marxsen 

#### [Ballooning Bankruptcies ](/regulation/fall-1997/ballooning-bankruptcies)

By Vern McKinley 

#### [Bankruptcy Reform ](/regulation/fall-1997/bankruptcy-reform)

By Joseph Pomykala 

#### [The Class Action Con Game ](/regulation/fall-1997/class-action-con-game)

By Lawrence W. Schonbrun 

#### [Good-bye Pesticide? ](/regulation/fall-1997/good-bye-pesticide)

By Daniel M. Byrd 

##### Columns 

#### [Weighing Alternative Approaches to Trade ](/regulation/fall-1997/weighing-alternative-approaches-trade)

By [Brink Lindsey](https://www.cato.org/people/brink-lindsey) 

#### [Beware: Your Rights Could Be Crimes (Part II) ](/regulation/fall-1997/beware-rights-could-be-crimes-part-ii)

By [Tim Lynch](https://www.cato.org/people/tim-lynch) 

#### [Bureacrats Making Monopolies ](/regulation/fall-1997/bureacrats-making-monopolies)

By Frank Wilner 

##### Letters 

##### [Valuing Ecosystem Services: A Response ](/regulation/fall-1997/valuing-ecosystem-services-response)

##### [Clearing Ecosystems Misunderstandings ](/regulation/fall-1997/clearing-ecosystems-misunderstandings)

##### [Correcting Remedial Measures ](/regulation/fall-1997/correcting-remedial-measures)

##### [Lessons from the Lab ](/regulation/fall-1997/lessons-lab)

##### [If You Believe in Ghosts ](/regulation/fall-1997/you-believe-ghosts)

##### Perspectives 

##### [Cafe’s Recipe for “Light Trucks” ](/regulation/fall-1997/cafes-recipe-light-trucks)

##### [EPA: The Enemy is Us ](/regulation/fall-1997/epa-enemy-us)

##### [ABA: Arrogance and Sanctimony ](/regulation/fall-1997/aba-arrogance-sanctimony)

##### [The Politics of Public Lands ](/regulation/fall-1997/politics-public-lands)

##### [Medicare Limits Senior Liberty ](/regulation/fall-1997/medicare-limits-senior-liberty)

##### Readings 

##### [Excessive Merit ](/regulation/fall-1997/excessive-merit)

##### [New Light on Homelessness ](/regulation/fall-1997/new-light-homelessness)

##### [Universal Access in Hindsight ](/regulation/fall-1997/universal-access-hindsight)

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