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...help sell an estimated $175 million worth of toys last year, while Hasbro's Transformers helped generate sales of $214 million. Under President Reagan, the Federal Communications Commission has removed all limits on advertising in children's programming and refused to take action against shows that detractors call "program-length commercials...
...Judiciary Committee prepares to vote on Bork this Thursday -- a deadline it may miss owing to the length of much of the testimony -- Specter is the least predictable of the three fence-sitters. Bork lobbyists conceded last week that Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini may be "gone," likely to join six other Democrats considered certain to reject the judge. Forecasters think that Alabama's Howell Heflin will be the only Democrat on the panel to vote for Bork, joining five certain Republican supporters...
Given the cloud of highly charged gossip that surrounded Markham from adolescence on (she was expelled from school in Nairobi for trying perhaps "to organize a revolt," and then married at 16), it is surprising that until the present volume, no one had answered such questions in a full-length biography. But although West with the Night was praised when it was first published in 1942, sales were not high, and after a few short stories based on her experiences, Markham gave up writing. Author Mary S. Lovell hotfooted it to Nairobi after reading the republished memoir and found...
Some incumbents--notably Thomas W. Danehy, with his frequent references to "our viewing audience"--have aimed bursts of oratory at the airwaves. Many onlookers blamed this newfound eloquence for the unusual length of last spring's meetings...
Some incumbents--notably Thomas W. Danehy, with his frequent references to "our viewing audience"--have aimed bursts of oratory at the airwaves. Many onlookers blamed this newfound eloquence for the unusual length of last spring's meetings...