Word: firm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President Pusey also announced that Jose Luis Sert, retiring dean of the Graduate School of Architecture and Design, will be the architect for the structure, working through his private firm of Sert, Jackson and Associates, which also designed Holyoke Center and Peabody Terrace. Sert has not yet announced plans for the design of the Science Center...
Thus last week, after ten years of firm though benevolent military rule, Thailand promulgated a long-delayed new constitution and took the first, if hesitant, step toward a return to representative government. Like the ceremony itself, the constitution is more show than substance: it does not necessarily mean the end of the military regime or, for that matter, even of mar tial law, under which Thailand has been ruled for a decade. Only the day before the ceremony, General Praphas Charusathien, 55, strongman of a regime in which he holds the posts of Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and army commander...
Such a formula will still probably be required. The court's decision does not prevent Congress from legislating a copyright fee to protect the broadcasters and producing firms, and some CATV leaders publicly concede that this would be fair. Says Irving B. Kahn, president of TelePrompTer Corp., a cable franchise holder in New York City and Los Angeles: "We're not looking to be freeloaders. We still have an obligation to knock out a sensible and fair solution to the copyright problem." But the Supreme Court has strengthened the CATV bargaining position when negotiations resume. The cable owners...
...wired in by 1972 and 90% by 1980. One reason for the growth-apart from the ghost-free studio-quality reception of what may eventually total 30 VHP and UHF channels-is that CATV in some markets offers its own programming on unused channels. Typical example: a cable firm might display a clock for an instant time check on one channel, and carry running weather forecasts, news and stock market reports on others. In Athens, Tenn., CATV covers local city and county council meetings and high school sports events. A few of the more enterprising CATV outfits are even programming...
...share of the parimutuels. With such operations as a base, Santa Fe Industries will be willing to get into almost any profitable business. "As long as it's making money," says Reed, "I'd be ready to buy. It doesn't matter if the firm is Queenie hair curlers." Or perhaps even a New Mexico manufacturer of Navajo blankets...