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# Jul/​Aug 1984 

Vol. 8 No. 4 

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##### Features 

#### [Slicing the Geostationary Pie: Property Fights in Orbit ](/regulation/jul/aug-1984/slicing-geostationary-pie-property-fights-orbit)

By Molly K. Macauley and Paul R. Portney 

#### [The Subsidized Sagebrush: Why the Privatization Movement Failed ](/regulation/jul/aug-1984/subsidized-sagebrush-why-privatization-movement-failed)

By Robert H. Nelson 

#### [Back-Door Rulemaking: A View from the CPSC ](/regulation/jul/aug-1984/back-door-rulemaking-view-cpsc)

By Terrence M. Scanlon and Robert A. Rogowsky 

#### [From Bad to Comparable Worth ](/regulation/jul/aug-1984/bad-comparable-worth)

By Charles Krauthammer 

##### Letters 

##### [Preparing for the Next Oil Shock ](/regulation/jul/aug-1984/preparing-next-oil-shock)

##### Perspectives 

##### [Revision without Revolution in Carcinogen Policy ](/regulation/jul/aug-1984/revision-without-revolution-carcinogen-policy)

##### [Truth-in-Hospitalization ](/regulation/jul/aug-1984/truth-hospitalization)

##### [Sorry, Wrong Company? Competition in Pay Phones ](/regulation/jul/aug-1984/sorry-wrong-company-competition-pay-phones)

##### [Race, Ratchets, Redistricting, and the Voting Rights Act ](/regulation/jul/aug-1984/race-ratchets-redistricting-voting-rights-act)

##### Readings 

##### [The Painful Prescription: Rationing Health Care ](/regulation/jul/aug-1984/painful-prescription-rationing-health-care)

##### [Facility Siting and Public Opposition ](/regulation/jul/aug-1984/facility-siting-public-opposition)

##### [Landmarks Preservation in New York ](/regulation/jul/aug-1984/landmarks-preservation-new-york)

##### [The Democratic Muse: Visual Arts and the Public Interest ](/regulation/jul/aug-1984/democratic-muse-visual-arts-public-interest)

##### [*Bob Jones University v. United States*: Public Policy in Search of Tax Policy](/regulation/jul/aug-1984/bob-jones-university-v-united-states-public-policy-search-tax-policy)

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