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...very least, the aggressive new competition will provide an incentive for cable companies to improve service and hold down what they can charge. As for the long term, much depends on how quickly cable can deliver on the long- promised, fully interactive 500-channel universe. If it takes too long -- or consumer demand for such futuristic services turns out to be less than anticipated -- cable's rivals may succeed in grabbing a significant portion of the business. "Cable talks about the information highway," says Neal Bobrick, sales vice president of Soundtrack, an electronics chain that sells dishes...
...accident occurred near the heart of Houston's refining and petrochemical district, the nexus of the U.S. pipeline network. The breach sent fuel prices soaring in the futures markets, interrupted supplies throughout Northeastern states (the pipe runs as far north as Linden, New Jersey) and forced the Houston ship channel to close down for several days. On Friday two other pipelines began leaking oil that seeped into Galveston...
...romantic as Nat Cole or as exuberant a geometrician as Art Tatum, both non-beboppers. But he could find a secret, personal vibrancy on a standard like Jerome Kern's Yesterdays, or combine a dark heart with a soaring spirit in such tunes of his own as Crossin' the Channel and Cleopatra's Dream. And he could make Tea for Two, for God's sake, sound like an entire banquet, with the Mad Hatter himself doing the pouring...
...past month, however, Arietta has plunged fast and deep into the multichannel universe. Primestar, a home-satellite company, picked Arietta as a demonstration site for its 77-channel DBS service. The company offered residents free installation of a 36-in. receiving dish and two months of free service. Ninety of the town's 133 families signed up, and in one weekend Arietta went from snowy images of Murder, She Wrote to a crystal-clear cornucopia of everything from cnn and the Cartoon Network to round-the-clock movies...
...housewife and mother of two. "Now the TV is never off unless we're out of the house." "We kind of jumped on it," says Ada Fancher, 47, whose husband owns a land-excavating service. "People have done everything up here to get good reception. They bought antennas, channel boosters, and you could still get only two channels. Now at least we know about current events...