Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the promise of HDTV may have been just a ruse. Each month, in surreptitious ways, the handout to the broadcasters becomes more egregious, which is unsurprising, given their lobbying clout with Congress--$7 million worth in the past two years. A clause buried in this summer's balanced-budget act, pushed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator Trent Lott, allows stations to keep both their old and new channel space beyond 2006 as long as 15% of households in their markets are still using analog sets. And ABC president Preston Padden has disclosed that his network will probably...
...upped its funding for membership drives from 4% to 30% of its budget. The Teamsters are taking on nonunion Federal Express and Overnite Transportation, the largest group of unorganized truckers in the nation. Labor watchers say that for the unions to thrive, they need to shift their recruitment focus to the new information economy and away from the old manual one. But the union's targets still stress the less skilled end of the workers' spectrum--apple pickers in Washington state, hotel workers in Las Vegas. Whether these workers can provide a replacement for the iron and steel backbone...
...extras, detailed down to the misty breath they exhale in the cold night air, although one source who has seen completed footage from the film says the overall effect is less impressive as a visual than as a because-they-can declaration. Why not, when you've got a budget currently estimated at over $200 million...
...claim that the balanced-budget and tax-cut law "gives away something to just about everyone" [NATION, Aug. 11], but it's not true. The clear winners are the upper middle class and the rich. The tax benefits flow disproportionately to the wealthiest Americans. And I was horrified to read Daniel Kadlec's commentary arguing that the "victims" of this legislation are the "upper-income wage slaves." He describes an imaginary couple struggling to make ends meet on their $160,000-a-year income in their cramped $475,000 four-bedroom house. I don't know if Kadlec is serious...
...TIME science correspondent Dick Thompson explains: "With the help of SOHO, scientists may now have a handle on when and where solar storms will occur. The end result is that satellites, power stations and astronauts can be better warned and protected." Budget concerns, however, may force NASA to pull the plug on the satellite. Thompson says they couldn't have picked a worse time to flick the switch: The sun is about to go into solar maximum, its most violent period ? and the most scientifically useful...