Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer of 1976. Recalls Fallows: "I felt that he, alone among the candidates, might look past the tired formulas of left and right and offer something new." Almost as soon as Carter entered the White House, however, Fallows began growing disenchanted. As a speechwriter, he had enjoyed access to Carter when the new President was working out his own thoughts, and Fallows came to regard Carter as lacking in "sophistication," even "ignorant" of how power could or should be exercised. Though Carter holds "explicit, thorough positions on every issue under the sun," Fallows charges, he does not possess any unifying...
Earlier in April, cable operators were partly freed of an obligation to broadcast shows they did not want to carry. The FCC had long required cable stations to provide "public access" air time to just about any group that put together a show. Though some of the programs perform a real public service (consumer-advice shows, for example), many are excruciatingly dull (talk shows on which people-in-the-street rattle on about nothing in particular) and a few border on pornography (nude dancing on Midnight Blue over Manhattan's Channel...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said yesterday he denied CARP access to buildings on campus because members of the association denied their affiliation with Moon's Unification Church at meetings with Epps and continued to solicit on University premises after being asked...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday Harvard has a right to refuse access to buildings to groups not affiliated with the University...
...courts that they have begun to sound like a Greek chorus in a long running tragedy. In the past year, the U.S. Supreme Court has let New York Times Reporter Myron Farber go to jail for refusing to turn over his notes in a criminal trial, allowed Government investigators access to journalists' phone records, and in a decision that shocked many reporters, upheld a surprise police raid of a newspaper office. Last week the high court ruled 6 to 3 that newsmen must answer questions about what they were thinking when they prepared reports that resulted in libel suits...