Word: channelized
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...Spirit was so weighted with fuel that he cleared the telephone lines at the end of the runway by only 20 feet. His route took him up through New England, over Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, past the green southern tips of Ireland and England, and finally over the Channel to France...
...agency that could subpoena company and union records, order large increases suspended while it held hearings, and even roll back "really flagrant" boosts. Other Heller ideas that are widely backed by liberals include: an immediate easing in Federal Reserve monetary policy to head off a recession; credit controls to channel more loan money to home builders and buyers and small businesses, less to speculators; a huge Government program to hire the unemployed for public-service jobs; tax cuts of $6 billion to $8 billion to give medium-and low-income families some relief from the ravages that inflation has wrought...
Indeed, public access does bring awkward copy and added costs; air time and newspaper space are expensive, and staff must be used to channel the flow of incoming opinions. But the practice will proably expand even further, partly because it is intrinsically just and partly because editors find it the surest way to deflect charges of unfairness. "There was a time when you could bump into an editor in the barber shop and tell him what was on your mind," says Robert Burdock, Plain Dealer managing editor. "But times have changed. Now letters and other kinds of reader expression...
...incited a wholesale student and faculty rebellion and prompted the rebels to establish a liberal-oriented Seminary in Exile (Seminex) that almost stripped the official seminary of teachers and students. Evangelical Lutherans in Mission, founded a year ago, has become the organizational voice of the dissidents and the funding channel for the breakaway seminary...
Cable companies unanimously do not want to assume censorship responsibility. Says a spokeswoman for New York's Manhattan Cable TV: "It is not our channel; it is the public's channel." But many operators would like some sort of community-review system to try to implement the FCC'S obscenity clause...