Word: householders
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...believe passionately that their liberty, their safety or both are bound up with the widest possible availability of guns. So 30 years later, guns are still very much with us, murderous little fixtures of the cultural landscape. We live with them as we live with computers or household appliances, but with more difficult consequences--some of them paid in blood. Among the industrial nations, this cultural predicament is ours alone...
...these hot new services swiftly. About 25% of TCI's systems will have the capacity to carry two-way traffic by the end of this year, with 95% scheduled to be ready by the end of 2000. At the same time, AT&T plans to spend some $400 per household to install the digital set-top boxes that will serve as portals to high-speed networks that will carry voice, video and data signals. So eager are the companies to get started that they plan to cross-market their cable and telephone services even as regulators review the merger...
Armstrong must still contend with those ornery Baby Bells. Even if all 33 million households in neighborhoods that TCI serves were to buy AT&T local service, the company would remain shut out of two-thirds of the country's homes. Armstrong hopes to make inroads with a so-called fixed wireless system that AT&T is developing to deliver household service through cellular technology. But in the end, he acknowledges, as many as 25% of U.S. homes will remain beyond AT&T's reach--unless it can strike deals with the Bells and other local phone companies...
Treating married couples as singles for tax purposes, with each claiming half of household income, is the way to do it. That would be fair--but very expensive for the Treasury, and thus unlikely. For now, lovers with similar incomes should take a hard look at the tax bill they would pay for wedded bliss. And those of us already married can use the same numbers as a reminder of the things we do for love...
DIED. AL CAMPANIS, 81, behind-the-scenes Dodgers exec for four decades who became a household name--and killed his career--after remarking on national TV that black people lacked "some of the necessities" to be major league managers; in Fullerton, Calif. As short stop on the Dodgers farm team, Campanis worked with second baseman Jackie Robinson to perfect the double play. But during a 1987 ABC tribute to his former teammate's breaking the color barrier, Campanis dropped the ball. He was fired two days later...