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...they go through conference unscathed, House Resolution 1555 and Senate Resolution 652 will let cable television and local phone companies enter each other's business; reverse price cuts and regulations from the 1992 Cable Television Act; and loosen restrictions on media ownership. The bill threatens to create a mass media market dominated by corporate interests and economically inefficient to boot...
...brutally frank internal review found numerous faults with the Taurus and many superior features in the competition. "We needed major improvements in squeak and rattle performance and engine noises that came with wide-open acceleration," recalls George Bell, the chief engineer. "There was a tendency of the car to loosen up, and we clearly needed to improve points in steering and handling confidence...
...Loosen restrictions on media ownership. Under the House version of the bill, a single company could own cable systems, radio stations and newspapers in the same market. Rupert Murdoch, for example, could own not only the New York Post and WNYW-TV in New York City but an unlimited number of radio stations and stakes in the local cable-TV system and the NYNEX phone company as well...
...hard-liner close to him. Last week Saddam's eldest son Udai publicly condemned the conciliatory efforts as a failure and urged his father to take a harder line. On the very day that the U.S. succeeded once again in blocking efforts by France, Russia and China to loosen the sanctions, the two Americans were seized after they entered Iraq. "They're certainly in the mood to make this an incident," says Rend Francke, executive director of the Washington-based Iraq Foundation, a pro-democracy think tank...
...known as "Justice," for it includes it among its government classes. As a government concentrator who has sat through both the aforementioned Core and government department courses, I too fail to see this distinguishable "approach." Therefore, members of the Faculty of the Committee on the Core Program, either loosen the ban on departmental classes or make more apparent this distinct "approach to knowledge" the Core claims to instill...