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...Arts commands such a small share of total ) government spending that it does not even appear as a separate item on the short form of the federal budget. But relative to its size, the agency has over the past few years probably consumed more debate time than any other function of government. Ronald Reagan entered office suggesting that government had no business financing or endorsing cultural activity. A dozen years later, the Republicans left the White House having turned the NEA from a sacred cow into a matador's bull -- and having diverted a third of its nominal allocation...
...around 600,000 people, but the performers are not nearly as interested in the crowds as they are in the 400 scouts from Hollywood and New - York City who roam the venues in search of the next Roseanne Barr or Jerry Seinfeld. The industry types perform a very important function. At every hotel bar you see the same clusters of people: a couple of comics, a couple of managers and an executive; the executive is there to pick up the check...
...single satellite orbiting high above the equator has suddenly become one of the world's most coveted media properties. The satellite, partly owned by a fledgling Hong Kong company, has a simple function: it transmits a service called STAR TV, for Satellite Television Asia Region, which beams such Western television fare as the BBC and American programming such as Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and MTV to impoverished slum dwellers in Cairo and the nouveaux riches in Zhangzhou. Though its current audience is a mere 13 million, the reason for its value is the size of its potential market...
...primary instigators of the price war have been new small companies that function more as assembly lines than as manufacturers. Many of these firms, ; such as Zeos, Graystar and PC Brand, don't invest in costly research or development, nor do they own expensive manufacturing plants. Instead they operate out of factories and garages. Rather than make PCs from scratch, they buy everything from circuit boards, displays and disk drives to entire computers from foreign firms that largely copy American PC designs. Says Brad Smith, vice president of PC research at Dataquest: "All you need to start a PC company...
...three months no mail has been delivered and no trucks have arrived with supplies. There are no stores, no cars, no doctors. There are no books in the schools, which doesn't matter because most parents can no longer afford to send their children. The hospital has ceased to function, and the only government offices still working are the tax collector and the local police post, which boasts a .50-cal. machine gun and the sergeant's collection of whips. The only work to be found is making charcoal that is shipped by boat to the slums of Port...