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# Mar/​Apr 1985 

Vol. 9 No. 2 

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##### Features 

#### [Microseconds and Macropolicy ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/microseconds-macropolicy)

By Walter B. Wriston 

#### [Helium — How Much Is Enough? ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/helium-how-much-enough)

By [Richard L. Stroup](https://www.cato.org/people/richard-stroup) and Jane S. Shaw 

#### [Telephones and Computers ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/telephones-computers)

By Robert D. Willig and William J. Baumol 

#### [Statutes and Stopping Points: Building a Better Bubble at EPA ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/statutes-stopping-points-building-better-bubble-epa)

By Michael Levin 

#### [Regulating the Demon Rum ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/regulating-demon-rum)

By David R. Spiegel 

##### Letters 

##### [The Uncertain Case against Acid Rain ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/uncertain-case-against-acid-rain)

##### [Lemon Aid for Car Buyers ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/lemon-aid-car-buyers)

##### [Canadian Aerospace ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/canadian-aerospace)

##### Perspectives 

##### [A Truce in the Takeover Wars? ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/truce-takeover-wars)

##### [Regulation and the 1986 Budget ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/regulation-1986-budget)

##### [Bumpers to Bumpers in Court ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/bumpers-bumpers-court)

##### [In Brief ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/brief)

##### Readings 

##### [The Supreme Court, 1983 Term-Foreword: The Court and the Economic System ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/supreme-court-1983-term-foreword-court-economic-system)

##### [The Achilles Heel of the Takeover: Nature and Scope of Successor Corporation Products Liability in Asset Acquisitions ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/achilles-heel-takeover-nature-scope-successor-corporation-products-liability)

##### [Winners and Losers under the Robinson-Patman Act ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/winners-losers-under-robinson-patman-act)

##### [Reagan’s Record Revisited ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/reagans-record-revisited)

##### [Deregulation and the New Airline Entrepreneurs ](/regulation/mar/apr-1985/deregulation-new-airline-entrepreneurs)

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