Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airwaves so thoroughly are just a Wonder Years memory. Only a few theatrical movies comparable to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest show up on network TV anymore; when they do, most people have already seen them on pay cable or videocassette. Gone With the Wind is no longer available to the networks at all; rights to it are owned by Atlanta TV mogul Ted Turner, who used it to launch his new cable channel, TNT, last week. And the days when TV movies could attract 40% of the viewing audience, almost without trying, are as dead as Elvis...
...shows. Programming is no worse than it was during the 1960s and '70s, when viewing levels were lofty; indeed, with such ground-breaking fare as Miami Vice, Moonlighting and Late Night with David Letterman, it is probably better. The real reason is that network TV is no longer the only game in town. Among the new players...
There have been signs in the glasnost-era press that the security empire is no longer exempt from criticism. Last year Soviet readers were shocked by reports that Ukrainian KGB officers had been dismissed for falsely arresting a muckraking Soviet journalist. That news seems almost tame compared with a recent scandal in Odessa. A senior KGB officer and a public prosecutor reportedly trumped up corruption charges that led to the false arrest of as many as 60 local officials. When the story broke in the press, the accused officials sued for libel -- and lost...
...proliferation of speculative financial instruments is tied to the new role of institutional investors. In fact, the term institutional investor is becoming a contradiction in terms. Too many institutions no longer invest. Instead they speculate -- in every type of financial vehicle from options to junk bonds, from real estate to foreign exchange. They are active players in the takeover game, encouraging corporations either to sell out or to engage in highly leveraged restructurings essentially aimed at maximizing short-term trading profits. But while the managers of institutional funds engage in this speculation, the money is not theirs. They are risking...
...congress, evidently considering it riskier to suppress the movement than to try co- opting it, especially since one-fifth of the 60,000 who elected the delegates are Communists. Declared Vyalyas: "This is an example of socialist pluralism." And how. Estonia has already announced that its clocks will no longer be forceably aligned with Moscow's, but will line up with neutral Finland, one hour farther west...