Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reality it is a cult revolving around a long-haired, charismatic mystic, Shoko Asahara, a magnetic misfit who preaches that government efforts to obliterate his movement will coincide with the beginning of the end of the world. Throughout the week, the hidden guru pleaded his innocence via radio broadcast and videotape, then vanished, leaving behind three luxury cars in a Tokyo hotel parking lot and a $300,000 lawsuit seeking compensation for the police raids...
...says, by producers, who kept telling her, "You need to get angry"--began shouting at Miller. Among other things, she accused Miller of neglecting Burkett's daughter, who attended a day-care center Miller used to run. (Producers have since deleted that accusation from the segment, which will be broadcast this week.) "I couldn't believe what was happening," says Miller. "Looking at Bey walking up and down, I kept thinking, 'How can you sleep at night...
...piles of gold bars and tons of chemicals in cult buildings, including theingredients of sarin-- the nerve gas used in the Tokyo attack -- as well as glycerin compounds that could be used to make explosives. The leader of the group, Shoko Asahara, remains at large although he has broadcast messages denying responsibility for the subway attack...
...Newt Gingrich sternly reminded rebellious House Republicans who are balking on promised GOP tax cuts that President Bush lost his 1992 re-election bid because he reneged on his "Read my lips: no new taxes" pledge. "It destroyed his presidency," Gingrich told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce town meeting broadcast around the country. Gingrich andHouse Majority Leader Dick Armey(R-Tx.) called on voters to put grassroots pressure on the rebel representatives -- 102 of the 230-member GOP caucus -- to "keep our word on theContract." The rebels want to restrict tax credits to families with incomes no higher than...
...part of their $2.3 billion acquisition of Viacom Inc.'s cable systems. Under the provision, a company that sells a cable system to a partnership controlled by a minority can qualify to defer its capital gains on the sale indefinitely. The law was designed to encourage minority ownership of broadcast properties, a fact Washington knows better than most. He wrote the original policy at the FCC in the late 1970s and since then has secured the tax break for five similar transactions. Those deals have made him rich, and the new deal will make him much richer. He may more...