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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia--Millions of Czechoslovakians ignored government pleas and joined a nationwide general strike yesterday in the largest and most dramatic demonstration for democracy and an end to Communist Party rule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Millions of Czechs Strike for Reforms | 11/28/1989 | See Source »

...Prague's largest industrial complex, CKD, workers demanded the formation of independent trade unions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Millions of Czechs Strike for Reforms | 11/28/1989 | See Source »

Aska International, the Tokyo art gallery that spent $25 million at the Dorrance sale, is controlled by Aichi Corp., a Tokyo firm that last September became one of the five largest shareholders of Christie's stock, with 6.4%. Aichi, in turn, is controlled by Yasumichi Morishita, a secretive businessman who got a one-year suspended sentence in Tokyo in 1986 for securities fraud. Morishita is reputedly worth a trillion yen ($7 billion), and may be planning a takeover of Christie's -- although it is unlikely that the Monopolies and Mergers Commission would approve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sold! The Art Market: Goes Crazy | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...affiliate WCVB in Boston, news shows accounted for 39.5% of the station's revenues last year. WCVB boasts that it has the largest news staff of any U.S. station -- 350 reporters, producers, anchors and technicians -- as well as two trucks equipped with satellite uplinks to beam stories back to the station from remote locations. News departments at dozens of U.S. stations today own their own satellite-transmitting trucks, up from only a handful five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV News: The Sky's the Limit | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...video news services, swapping coverage with other broadcasters, or making deals to get their stories on cable stations. WWL, the CBS affiliate in New Orleans, has its own all-news cable channel. Half a dozen video news services offer prepackaged stories to fill out local newscasts. One of the largest services is Conus, a news cooperative with 100 U.S. member stations. Other leading entries include Group W Newsfeed, a division of Westinghouse, and Visnews, an international video news wire. Recognizing the potential of these nonnetwork sources, NBC last year bought 38% of Visnews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV News: The Sky's the Limit | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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