Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Investors backed away from multinational companies as the dollar unexpectedly rebounded. Investors refocused on stocks of smaller and mid-sized companies and high tech firms. Blue Chip stocks fell and technology and small cap stocks strengthened, pushing the Nasdaq index up 2.04 to a record high of 1,031.28. For the week, the index finished up 27.17, an increase of 2.7 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 13.03 to 4, 617.60. In moderate trading, advances led declines, 1207 to 996 on a volume of 312 million shares. The S & P 500 closed at 559.21, up 0.17. In London, gold...
...Blue-chip stocks slipped as the dollar surged to its highest level in nearly six months. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 19.02 to 4640.84. On the New York Stock Exchange, advances led declines 1,180 to 1,035 on a volume of 330 million shares. The Nasdaq composite index dropped slightly, finishin down 0.07 at 1,012.37. The S & P index fell 1.17 to 558.57. In London, gold closed at $386.45, up $2.45.Photographs: Fuhrman by John McCoy/Pool Weaver by Tom Shanahan/AP USS Roosevelt by DOD Felix by Bob Jordan/AP Mantle by Eric Gay/AP
Selective restriction of access to programming runs counter to one of the greatest goals of television, the dissemination of information. What will be next? A V Chip for advertising--filtering out infomercials, denture creams or the "Nacho Man?" A V Chip for different topics with settings for "no Amy Fisher," or "no O.J." or even "no Clinton...
There is no V chip to filter out the violence which children will witness brewing in their neighborhoods and schools. Undoubtedly, a family who sits down to watch their local news with the V chip set at its most restrictive level will find most of the footage...
...protect our children from violence, we must realize that violence on television reflects the violence in our country--it does not create it. Preventing real, not fantasy, violence should be the priority of the parents and the President. In the home and in the government, clamoring for the V chip is a sign that we are looking for yet another way to find a convenient and politically popular Band-Aid without putting in the real effort to heal the gaping wound...