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The electric power industry was traditionally a utility to which people gave little thought. It had stable prices, low business risk, and predictable emerging issues. Great change has shaken the industry. Mergers have resulted in large and powerful companies. Natural gas prices have plummeted and gas is replacing coal as the basis for both electricity production and new capacity. Environmental regulation is in flux. And new technologies are transforming all parts of the industry's value chain. The high cost and new skills demanded by these technologies give rise to unprecedented financial risk.

Traces the development of the first newspapers published in the American colonies, and sets their emergence against the history of the press in London and the English countryside. The book also explores how information once designed mainly for private transmission became public property

In contrast to the hundred-year struggle for pro cedural reform in England the American movement for im proved law administration has been professionally inspired and directed. Pleading, comprising the steps preparatory to the trial itself, by custom and precedent is an important preliminary stage of litigation where formalism has become rooted and re form is necessary. The first great reform of common law pleading was by the Field Code of 1848 in New York, which was copied in a majority of the states. Meanwhile federal practice lagged because of the statutory requirement of con formity to state practice. But with the adoption by the Su preme Court of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as drafted by its Advisory Committee, the federal practice became the outstanding system in the country and a model for reform in a constantly increasing number of states. It has also stimulated the movement for rule-making authority in the courts and for an integrated court system efficiently operated. While much remains to be done, the intelligent steps already taken toward improved law administration show that current criticism of the courts is overdrawn and the title of this symposium, "Lagging Justice," not apt.