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...strike is the AMPTP’s attempt to apply the current formula for residuals—payments made to writers each time a show is rebroadcast or sold after its initial showing—to new media. This issue of residuals dates back to the 1980s, with the development of burgeoning VHS technology. “We were told it was experimental material,” says Jeffrey D. Melvoin ’75, a writer and producer, explaining how the networks and studios negotiated contacts with limited residual payments for new media. “We learned...
Leading Poland to democracy brought Lech Walesa a Nobel Peace Prize and international acclaim, but he admits to a few regrets. One is that he was so busy throughout the 1980s and '90s that he "did not have the time to follow developments in technology closely." But he is catching...
...Merrill Lynch and Citigroup are posting record losses. The U.S. dollar is getting pounded by the British pound - and virtually every other currency. Oil has run up as high as $98 per bbl., and gold - the traditional doomsday investment - has topped $800, its highest level since the early 1980s...
...vehemence earned them an undeserved reputation as ratbags (obsessed eccentrics). The problem was democratizing the republican issue while detaching it from the ownership of the Australian left. And it did slowly broaden, though its main political instrument, the Australian Republican Movement (A.R.M.), didn't come into existence until the 1980s...
This does not, however, mean that Australia's road to multi-culti has been stoneless. Translated into government policy, multi-culti in the 1980s became, its critics say, not just a neutral recognition of diversity but a pork barrel for buying the temporary loyalties of ethnic groups...