Re: Airline deregulation and the search for a scapegoat

2001-03-02 Thread Jim Devine
At 05:49 PM 2/26/01 -0500, you wrote: When the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure finally came to order in the Dirkscn Senate Office Building on February 6, 1975, SENATOR KENNEDY made himself the lead-off witness. "Regulation," he began, "has gone astray either because they

Airline deregulation and the search for a scapegoat

2001-02-26 Thread Louis Proyect
Thomas Petzinger, Jr., "Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits that Plunged the Airlines into Chaos" (Random House, 1995) As a crusader for regulatory reform, Bakes [Phil Bakes, an ex-"hippie-radical" who had become a government lawyer working side-by-side with Stephen Breyer] felt