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# Mar/​Apr 1983 

Vol. 7 No. 2 

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##### Viewpoint 

### [Talk vs. Action at the FCC ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/talk-vs-action-fcc)

By Henry Geller 

##### Features 

#### [What Makes Reform Happen? ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/what-makes-reform-happen)

By Roger G. Noll and Bruce M. Owen 

#### [Close Encounters in the Skies: A Paradox of Regulatory Incentives ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/close-encounters-skies-paradox-regulatory-incentives)

By Michael E. Staten and John Umbeck 

#### [Nuclear Power: The Decision Makers Speak ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/nuclear-power-decision-makers-speak)

By Robert L. Cohen and S. Robert Lichter 

#### [Affirmative Action after Teal: A New Twist or a Turn of the Screw? ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/affirmative-action-after-teal-new-twist-or-turn-screw)

By Michael W. McConnell 

##### Letters 

##### [Airline Productivity under Deregulation ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/airline-productivity-under-deregulation)

##### [Manville and Product Liability ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/manville-product-liability)

##### Perspectives 

##### [Mount Laurel II: State Courts Rush in… ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/mount-laurel-ii-state-courts-rush)

##### [Regulation and the 1984 Budget ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/regulation-1984-budget)

##### [A Logjam for U.S. Exports ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/logjam-us-exports)

##### [Tylenol: Regulate in Haste… ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/tylenol-regulate-haste)

##### [In Brief ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/brief)

##### Readings 

##### [Has Deconcentration Policy Worked? ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/has-deconcentration-policy-worked)

##### [EPA and Auto Emissions: No More Gains to Exhaust? ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/epa-auto-emissions-no-more-gains-exhaust)

##### [Government Largesse and Constitutional Values ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/government-largesse-constitutional-values)

##### [Tucker contra Sierra ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/tucker-contra-sierra)

##### [Regulation of Medical Equipment: The First Six Years ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/regulation-medical-equipment-first-six-years)

##### [The SEC in Dubious Battle ](/regulation/mar/apr-1983/sec-dubious-battle)

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