Word: growth
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...programs that are already produced," says Samuel Roberts, executive director of international broadcasts for CBS News. "Anything that we sell for overseas is just gravy." An increase in the number of communications satellites and the relaxation of strict state regulation of TV in many countries have encouraged the growth of new broadcast and cable channels. ABC has signed a deal with Dublin-based Anglo-Vision to distribute its news shows to hotels in 17 European countries. And the television version of USA Today, set to make its debut in September, has already been sold to broadcasters in Australia, the Philippines...
...steep their price tags. At a meeting in Paris last week of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, top European officials pointed to excessive consumption as the chief cause of the U.S. trade deficit. Nigel Lawson, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, called for a "slowdown in the growth of U.S. domestic demand, which in these circumstances is rising uncomfortably fast...
...convinced this bill will cost jobs and damage our economic growth," Reagan said in focusing his veto message on a provision that would require companies to give their employees notice of plant closings and large-scale layoffs...
Both Wolf and CCA Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 said they would only support rezoning if a moratorium on building in Harvard Square went with it. Duehay said that such a cap would be necessary to prevent "excessive growth during the period of the study...
...West Europeans. With a combined gross domestic product of $4.3 trillion, they are as strong economically as the U.S., and their total population of 374 million is one-third larger than that of the U.S. The likelihood that defense outlays will increase is dim, however, since European economic growth rates are slowing. Another inhibiting factor, a senior U.S. official notes, is that "arms talks are making progress and detente is in the air." And just as crises tend to pull NATO together, any easing of East-West tensions tends to magnify the forces pulling the alliance apart...