Word: cpb
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...loan from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) will avert a short-term financial collapse of the 281-station, federally funded non-commercial radio network NPR's recent economics woes including a $9.1 million deficit, has forced it to cut back on many of its programs and to fire several of its top executives and staff Jan Hanreth, an NPR spokesman said yesterday...
...officials from NPR and the CPB, the agency which disburses federal funds to public television and radio stations, reached a compromise settlement late Wednesday night calling for CPB to advance the network the $500,000 it needed to meet today's payroll...
...turn, NPR agreed to place its independently owned satellites into a special trust as collateral, Hanreth said. CPB wanted the network to give over control of the satellites until they began to pay off the debt, but NPR refused, finally agreeing to place the satellites into a trust run by three people of the network's own choice, he added...
...news correspondent William Drummond said it was "not bloody likely" that the CPB loan means the network can service its financial problems...
When President Reagan last week urged U.S. scientists to develop new high-tech defensive weaponry, this scenario was the sort of thing that he had in mind. It is called directed-energy weaponry and has two main forms: high-energy lasers (HEL) and charged-particle beams (CPB). In the current fiscal year, the Pentagon is spending $1 billion to test the feasibility of these weapons schemes. By all indications, the Soviets are spending even more, perhaps three to five times as much...