Word: interest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major, potentially popular, new programs at its white campuses. North Carolina insisted that decisions about where programs were offered were none of HEW's business and that strengthening of courses at the black schools was the key to further integration. Said U.N.C. President William Friday: "Our basic interest is to give more opportunity to go to college. You don't do that by closing programs." Adds Albert N. Whiting, black chancellor of North Carolina Central: "My answer to HEW is that we should place the emphasis on enhancing our curriculum...
...that their accumulated indebtedness has risen to more than $210 billion. Such major U.S. lenders as Citicorp and Chase Manhattan have huge loans out to India, Pakistan, Turkey and many other countries. Fears are rising that sooner or later some borrowers will not be able to afford even their interest payments. The threat is not simply of defaults leading to instability, but of worsening hunger and unrest among the world's more than 1 billion subsistence-level people...
...employees, nearly half are employed only to propose, write and enforce regulations. In Houston, the DOE keeps 40 full-time auditors in residence at Shell headquarters, and other companies also have their own in-house bureaucrats hovering in the halls. Much of the DOE'S staff has a self-interest in seeing the regulations proliferate: without them, Government workers would be out of jobs. So would small armies of lawyers in Washington, New York and Houston. Says a rich Houston lawyer: "Government regulations have been a real source of new business. The sums of money involved in DOE regulations...
...operators to pick up signals from as many distant broadcast-TV stations as they wish. Currently, there is in most cities a limit of two-so that a cable operator in Peoria, Ill., say, may show its viewers programs from stations in Chicago and Milwaukee that it thinks may interest them, but no more. If the FCC's proposal is adopted as a formal rule, the cable operator will be able to add programs from stations in Indianapolis, Sioux City, Iowa, and several other points. Moreover, it will not need to get the consent of, or make any payment...
...early April. Local authorities can still compel cable operators to make available public-access air time, and cable companies cannot legally remove the raunchier shows. Still, the Supreme Court ruling gave cable operators somewhat more authority to choose from among programs that they think will actually arouse some interest...