Word: channelize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this suggestion, she waves her hands vigorously, shaking her head. Harvard employees have "absolutely no input in the every day running of their work," she says, and if management ever pipes in music on the third floor, it will be no different. "They make the decision, they choose the channel, and they play the music," she says...
...thing does upset the townspeople: the lack of adequate flood control in the area. The Corps of Engineers has attempted to help by deepening the Souris' channel, but this spring's unusually high water levels could not be contained. Construction of a dam that could help hold back flood waters has been delayed by government red tape and is opposed by environmentalists and by farmers whose land might be flooded. Even if the project were to be approved, residents of Minot are likely to spend several more years warily watching the water. The earliest the dam could...
...1960s and 1970s has found it harder to respond to crime than America in the 1830s. Earlier, we dealt with the problem by creating new institutions-the police, the prison, the asylum, corporations, the mass political party, local self-government-through which to control dangerous impulses and channel constructive ones. Today there are virtually no institutions left to invent: crime increases in spite of police, prisons, and public and private government. For a long time, and to our great disadvantage, we clung to the myth that there was a bureaucratic or governmental alternative to familial and communal virtue, that what...
...services were not collecting fast enough. In 1964 the networks badly botched primary coverage. In a tight Goldwater-Rockefeller race in California, network forecasters, relying on competitively reported returns from the state's 31,000 polling places, ringingly declared both Goldwater and Rockefeller the winner-depending on which channel one was watching...
...Midnight Blue is aired in the New York City area on a public-access channel of Manhattan Cable TV, a subsidiary of Time Inc. As a condition of their franchises, cable-TV companies must turn over time on their channels for public access: free or nominal-charge use by individuals and community groups. Manhattan Cable is unhappy about Midnight Blue, but federal, state and city regulations require cable-TV franchise holders to make these public channels available on a first-come, first-served, nondiscriminatory basis. The limits on what is shown are, in what is still a new field...