Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic policy. The basic structure of economic policy should continue. However, certain emphasis has to be made as to the fair distribution of wealth. High income should not be limited to one group. It should be shared by all people...
...fair elections. A dishonest election will not be possible this time. About 42 million people will watch closely to ensure honesty...
Aykroyd's Friday is a smart parody and often a sharp instrument for social satire. Tom Hanks is not so lucky: he must represent relativistic contemporary values to Friday. It is simply not a fair fight. And both of them are overwhelmed by a story that unlike the old Dragnet TV plots, which were neat little slices of lowlife, is a mess of municipal corruption, pornography and religious-cult nonsense. As a result, the LAPD in this picture finally looks like a wholly owned subsidiary of the Beverly Hills cops...
Private data banks offer further opportunities for electronic surveillance, and the public has few safeguards against prying by companies. The only major law pertaining to private computer files is the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970. Under its provisions, credit-rating bureaus must give people access to their own credit files and the opportunity to correct mistakes. But the law is weakened by the fact that companies are not required to inform people that files on them have been opened...
Unless Congress circumvents Reagan's veto (possibly by attaching the fairness-doctrine measure to another piece of legislation), the issue will once again rest with the FCC, which has been steadily eliminating or easing many Government restrictions on broadcasters. Among them: limitations on the number of stations one company can own and minimum requirements on news and public-affairs programming. Dennis Patrick, the new FCC chairman, vows to continue the trend. "The electronic media," he says, "should enjoy the same First Amendment freedom as the print media." If his view prevails, fairness may no longer be a Government call; like...