Word: enough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire opêra bouffe-from one of the godfathers no less? That's pretty much what Arizona agents orchestrated at the modest ranch house of Joseph ("Joe Bananas") Bonanno, 74, in Tucson. For three years and more, undercover snoopers sniffed Bonanno's garbage and found enough evidence to obtain an indictment against Bonanno last week for conspiracy to obstruct justice. In a basement closet they also discovered a 250-page life story, detailing Bonanno's rise to leadership of one of the foremost U.S. Mafia families. The manuscript even carried a working title: My Reign...
CATV quickly caught on in other communities where reception was poor. Antenna builders soon noticed that if they made the towers tall enough, they could pull in signals from distant as well as nearby stations, thereby offering viewers greater variety as well as clearer pictures. But the road from Panther Valley to national prominence was long blocked by the FCC. Not until the 1970s did two events combine to broaden the cable audience dramatically: the FCC's first steps toward deregulation and, more important, the coming of satellite transmission. Since 1975, cable programmers (Home Box Office, a subsidiary...
...Teleprompter was losing money, and some other cable operators were also in financial trouble; they had borrowed heavily to expand after the FCC loosened regulations but got squeezed by high interest rates. Now the industry is bringing in $1.4 billion in revenue a year and posting profits high enough to catch the eye of multinational giants. General Electric has bought into a cable operator and Getty Oil into a programming company. RCA plans this December to send up another Satcom satellite that will carry more cable programs, even though some of the cable operators might take viewers away from...
...revolution, is "the man of mordant dissent." But in the main, the author is content to take the role of acolyte, bombarding his gifted tutors with questions, some incisive, others pointedly rhetorical. As Judson plays student to Nobel Laureates Crick and Perutz, so does the reader, who, if patient enough, can gain an understanding and appreciation of the century's most elusive science...
...tried to get Jean to sign a statement accusing her husband of drunken and disorderly conduct. She refused, and the couple eventually were allowed to return to their room. Robin was unconscious for much of the night, trembling violently and vomiting. The next day he was well enough to travel, and the couple returned to Moscow...