Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WHRB closed the dance to new students to control the size of the crowd. "At that point we were distressed about the jackets," said Black...
When they tune in to the likes of G.I. Joe, Smurfs and Thundercats, young television viewers are pelted with pitches for everything from plastic aircraft carriers to presweetened cereals. To control the clutter, Congress overwhelmingly approved a bill restricting commercials to 12 min. per hr. on weekday kids' shows and to 10 1/2 min. on weekends. The measure, aimed at reimposing limits dropped by the Federal Communications Commission in 1984, also required broadcasters to air educational programs for children...
...Salvador a bitter civil war is in its ninth year, and the leftist guerrillas are stepping up their assaults on military and economic targets. Last March voters gave control of the legislative assembly to the ultraconservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which has been linked in the past to death-squad activity. In presidential elections next March, ARENA is expected to defeat the moderate Christian Democrats, currently headed by President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who is dying of cancer. The new government, backed by a reshuffled military, can be expected to move more aggressively against the guerrillas, which will probably mean...
...people had chosen a Republican President before much of the nation had even digested dinner. Yet on this 200th anniversary of the election of George Washington, there was a palpable hesitancy as America cast its votes. Rather than ratifying the Reagan realignment, a nation of ticket splitters strengthened Democratic control of Congress. The result, whether conscious or not, is certain to exacerbate the deadlock of democracy over the deficit. By producing a Republican President pledged to resisting new taxes and a Democratic Congress adamant about safeguarding Social Security and Medicare, the sad legacy of Campaign '88 appears to be another...
...department stores, developing private-label garments has its risks. If poorly executed, they can fail just as severely as the most misguided high- fashion trend. But by gaining control over design and manufacturing, department-store merchants think they can stay in closer touch with the tastes of their customers. Case in point: when working women turned up their noses last year at the miniskirts offered by designers, many retailers rushed to offer house brands with hemlines more suited to the office environment. As such thread-to-thread competition intensifies, consumers are likely to be the real winners -- even if their...