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Modernization turned out to be a digital Tower of Babel. Treasury Deputy Secretary Lawrence Summers, charged with looking after the IRS, says, "I think modernization has gone way off track. They tried to build the Taj Mahal." Senator Bob Kerrey, co-chairman of the restructuring commission, describes tax modernization as...
The situation on Constitution Avenue is not altogether bleak. That the IRS is publicly acknowledging problems is a sign that it is on the road to remedying them. The agency is not entirely in the digital Dark Ages. It has a nifty Website www.irs.ustreas.gov) which is taking a million queries...
Even as computers, telephones and satellites got smarter and faster, the promise of digital technology for television sets always loomed on the other side of what seemed like an endless commercial break. Committees battled over standards, broadcasters whined about the cost, and manufacturers griped about the ever changing schedule for...
Last week the FCC and broadcasters approached an agreement to phase in new rules that should make the sharper images of digital or high-definition TV available in time for the 1998 football season. By then, broadcasters such as NBC and CBS have agreed, the nation's top 10 markets...
Even so, CBS executives project that the channel won't break even for six years. If it can hang on that long, digital technology--or a new generation of direct-broadcast satellites--is expected to increase capacity so much that getting space on the dial will no longer be a...