Word: approaches
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...Soviet threat in Plains, Ga., in July 1976. Recalling that meeting, the former President told TIME, "Nitze was typically know-it-all. He was arrogant and inflexible. His own ideas were sacred to him. He didn't seem to listen to others, and he had a doomsday approach." Carter barred him from consideration for a senior post...
Sharon's song is not the first hit about child abuse. Last summer Folk-Rock Singer Suzanne Vega reached the Top Ten with Luka, a more understated and artful approach to the topic. Nonetheless, the mournful plea of Dear Mr. Jesus clearly strikes a chord. "You can go on with child-abuse announcements and public service all you want," says Buddy Scott, program director for WBBM-FM in Chicago, "but this song causes an emotion in you that you really are not prepared...
This sense of Ethiopia as a bottomless sinkhole for Western aid inspires some skeptical experts to wonder whether such assistance is really wise. Regular international rescue efforts do little to encourage recipients to learn to feed themselves, the skeptics argue, and a tougher approach just might force Ethiopia to mend its ways. "What will aid do?" asked Britain's Economist last month. "It will strengthen the dominion of Ethiopia's ignorant rulers. The weather is the only calamity not directly caused by Colonel Mengistu . . . and his cronies. Their Russian advisers have taught them to run vast state farms that produce...
...schemes have been put forth to make HDTV more widely available. One proposal is for cable TV operators to provide the higher-quality images as an added service for their subscribers. Another is to distribute HDTV programming on high-capacity videodisks, much as videotapes are distributed today. A third approach involves splitting the HDTV signal into two parts and transmitting it over two separate broadcast channels. Old TV sets could utilize enough of the signal to provide a standard-quality picture, while an HDTV receiver could display the higher-resolution image...
...make it necessary for callers to use a credit card or a special access code. The targeted California companies could eventually face fines of up to $50,000 a day and criminal prosecution. Critics charge that antiregulatory zeal has hitherto led the FCC to take a laissez-faire approach to phone porn. "This signifies that the commission will enforce the rules it has adopted," says FCC General Counsel Diane Killory. This month the Senate adopted a provision that would ban the services. It now goes to the House of Representatives...