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...license has long seemed a permanent possession for most broadcasters. Though the law required periodic review of a station's performance, its right to continue using the air waves was rarely questioned, and the Federal Communications Commission tended to rubber-stamp most license renewals. No more. To the dismay of the broadcasting industry, citizen groups and rival commercial interests are posing increasingly numerous and serious challenges to the near perpetual license...
...1960s, they seemed a sensible solution to the problem of soaring education costs. The loans, backed by state and federal authorities but issued by private institutions at 7% interest, came due within a year after the student left school and were repayable within ten years. Now, to the dismay of financial authorities, the delinquency rate is soaring (as high as 9½% in the case of one major bank, compared with a standard adult rate of only 2%). The reasons most commonly cited: jobs are hard to find, and some students are simply loath to work or to pay debts...
What could they say? What do we say? Our machines have outraced our minds, and we are unable to comprehend the evil that our tools accomplish. It is easy to react to the ugliness close at hand. It is easy to share the dismay of the college president surveying the wreckage of his occupied office. But the greater horror eludes us. The Jews were slaughtered nearby, the Vietnamese are killed thousands of miles away: the lesson is the same. With a bit of government cosmetics, suffering can be forgotten if it is kept at arm's length. As evil becomes...
Lola ruled Ludwig's kingdom as well as his imagination, and to the dismay of Prince Metternich, the Austrian archconservative who was master of Europe between the two Napoleons, her rule was quite liberal-she harassed the Jesuits and introduced the Code Napoleon. In 1847 Metternich offered Lola $250,000 if she would quietly go away; Lola threw the money in his emissary's face. Then Metternich organized a student riot, and Lola fell into his trap. Haughtily, she got Ludwig to close the university. The students rioted again, and now the riot was swollen by thousands...
...first time, other University groups that had been dormant since 1970 emerged to voice their dismay over U.S. policy. More than 300 library staff members signed a petition condemning Nixon's latest move; Librarians for Peace, an antiwar group begun in 1970, circulated the petition...