Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that TV Guide is in any danger of losing its standing as the nation's premier TV magazine. (Its last serious competitor, Time Inc.'s TV-CABLE WEEK, expired after six months of publication in 1983.) Officials contend that the circulation drop can be explained by an increase in cover price (from 60 cents to 75 cents) and a pruning of some expensive-to-acquire subscribers. Advertising revenue, they add, was affected by last year's TV writers' strike (which delayed the networks' fall promotions) and by the elimination of a long-standing practice in which TV Guide traded...
...NATION: Prison overcrowding forces authorities to turn criminals loose; Bush's crime message promises little relief...
...Denver, despite the economy's woes, the new airport still faces determined opposition. It will be a mammoth project, far bigger than Chicago's O'Hare and Dallas-Fort Worth combined. Building it will entail shutting down the 60-year-old Stapleton Airport, the nation's fifth busiest...
...residents could not afford. The two main airlines servicing Denver, United and Continental, point out that Stapleton still has 25 unused gates; some expansion of runway capacity, they argued, was all that was needed. But the vote made it obvious that few citizens listened. It is only in the nation's booming Seattles, it seems, that residents can ask, What price growth? In the depressed Denvers, even the hope of growth seems to be worth almost any price...
...nearly four decades the Roman Catholic Church had no legal status in a country that is more than 90% Catholic. Last week, however, Poland became the first East bloc nation to recognize the church. The parliament approved a law that permits the church to operate businesses, schools and hospitals, and to run radio and television stations. The action came in the wake of a power- sharing agreement reached between the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski and the Solidarity labor movement, which has strong ties to the church. Catholic leaders have played a key role in negotiating the agreement with Solidarity...