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...CABLE COMPANIES THAT FILL OUR HOMES WITH more TV channels than we know what to do with have been threatening for years to adopt technology that could compound the problem tenfold. Now one of them is poised to actually do it. Tele-Communications Inc., which provides cable TV to 9 million U.S. households, announced plans to install equipment that could, in theory, deliver more than 500 channels by early 1994. TCI's announcement represents the first major consumer application of compressed-digital TV, which can squeeze 10 channels in the space currently occupied by only one. Not to be outdone...
...Administrative Board's handling of the date rape charges, the Ad Board responded in true bureaucratic fashion--they set up a committee. Last month, the Ad Board rejected two of the most important recommendations of that committee, the Date Rape Task Force. While Ad Board members voted to adopt several critical procedural changes, their rejection of the Task Force's definition of rape and their reluctance to create "peer-dispute subcommittees" makes up wonder how much the Ad Board has really learned in the last two years...
...Board did not adopt the definition of rape suggested by the task force--any act of sexual intercourse occurring without the expressed consent of both parties--instead favoring a definition relying on expressed dissent...
...taxes -- of their American subsidiaries. Now one of Japan's largest consumer-electronics manufacturers, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., has agreed to a new pricing method designed to head off questions through advance consultations. Matsushita, whose consumer-appliance brands include Panasonic and National, became the first major Japanese firm to adopt the new system. If approved by President-elect Bill Clinton, who has claimed during the campaign that foreign firms were underpaying U.S. taxes, it could well set a pattern...
There are situations where stores in the Square adopt the Harvard name and then move away...