Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President Clinton signed into law the sweeping telecommunications bill passed by Congress, he officially launched the era of the V chip. A little device that will be required equipment in most new TV sets within two years, the V chip allows parents to automatically block out programs that have been labeled (by whom remains to be seen) as high in violence, sex or other objectionable material. Last week also saw the release of a weighty academic study that said, in effect, it's about time. Financed by the cable industry and conducted by four universities, the study concluded that violence...
...movies and rock music. Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut last week joined the conservative Media Research Center in urging the networks to clean up the so-called family hour, the first hour of prime time each evening. President Clinton and Vice President Gore have both embraced the V chip and called for a summit meeting on TV violence with top network and cable executives at the end of February. The antinetwork rhetoric from many reformers sounds strikingly like that directed against another industry charged with making a harmful product. "The TV industry has to be socially responsible," says Harvard...
...materials, this in no way requires the federal government to invade civil society in this manner. If the Republicans want to follow Bob Dole's lead and urge on-line companies to voluntarily regulate their content, this is fine. Even laws requiring the software equivalent of the V-chip would be acceptable, because they would in no way restrict what could legally be posted on the Internet, but rather would bolster the ability of parents to privately and individually control what their children...
Deregulation is the bill's calling card in nearly every area but one: protecting children from the alleged harmful effects of media exposure. To allay concerns about violent TV fare, the bill requires that new TV sets be equipped with a V-chip--a device that allows parents automatically to lock out programs labeled as high in violence. And computer pornography is targeted by a provision that sets criminal penalties for anyone caught sending indecent material over the Internet without ensuring that minors won't have access to it. Civil-liberties groups objected to the measure as a violation...
...Jones rose 47.33 points to close at 5,539.45, breaching 5,500 for the first time. The blue-chip index is up 8.25 percent this year. The Dow spent most of the day at slightly depressed levels but shot up in the final hour on the strength of computer-driven buying programs. Trading was fairly heavy at 469.65 million shares. The NYSE composite index rose 2.83 to 349.15, and the Standard & Poor's 500 composite was up 6.13 to 656.06.The AMEX market value index climbed 2.07 to 564.66. The Nasdaq composite index rose 8.29 to 1093.17 breaking its record high...