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# Nov/​Dec 1983 

Vol. 7 No. 6 

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##### Features 

#### [How Liberal are Bureaucrats? ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/how-liberal-are-bureaucrats)

By Stanley Rothman and S. Robert Lichter 

#### [Exorcists Versus Gatekeepers in Risk Regulation ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/exorcists-versus-gatekeepers-risk-regulation)

By Peter Huber 

#### [Rail and Truck Reform: The Record so Far ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/rail-truck-reform-record-so-far)

By Thomas Gale Moore 

#### [Seattle Taxis: Deregulation Hits a Pothole ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/seattle-taxis-deregulation-hits-pothole)

By Richard O. Zerbe, Jr 

##### Letters 

##### [After the Legislative Veto ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/after-legislative-veto)

##### [Toward Competition in Telephone Service ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/toward-competition-telephone-service)

##### Perspectives 

##### [A Garden of Earthly Toxics ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/garden-earthly-toxics)

##### [Tenant Protection at HUD: Due Process or Undue Proceduralism? ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/tenant-protection-hud-due-process-or-undue-proceduralism)

##### [Pension Vesting and the IRS: The Power of Regulatory Persistence ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/pension-vesting-irs-power-regulatory-persistence)

##### [Software Piracy and the Law ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/software-piracy-law)

##### [In Brief ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/brief)

##### Readings 

##### [Why Ideology Counts ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/why-ideology-counts)

##### [The Air Controllers’ Strike: Implications for Labor Law ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/air-controllers-strike-implications-labor-law)

##### [Another Look at Landing Slots and Airline Competition ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/another-look-landing-slots-airline-competition)

##### [Conformity and Dissent in the Public Classroom ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/conformity-dissent-public-classroom)

##### [Yale Launches a New Journal ](/regulation/nov/dec-1983/yale-launches-new-journal)

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