Word: northerners
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Gilchrist Olympio, leader of the opposition party in the recent presidential election in Togo, also spoke at the conference Saturday. Olympio survived a recent assassination attempt by Togolese authorities while campaigning in the northern part of Togo, according to a brief biography of Olympio handed out at the conference...
...banks. Instead of settling for whatever happens to be on at a particular time, you could select any item from an encyclopedic menu of offerings and have it routed directly to your television set or computer screen. A movie? Airline listings? Tomorrow's newspaper or yesterday's episode of Northern Exposure? How about a new magazine or book? A stroll through the L.L. Bean catalog? A teleconference with your boss? A video phone call with your lover? Just punch up what you want, and it appears just when you want...
...least on a demonstration basis. Many of the regional Bell operating companies (the so-called Baby Bells) are trying to create their own interactive networks, either by themselves or in partnership with cable companies. Bell Atlantic is scheduled to begin offering video on demand to 300 homes in northern Virginia this summer. U.S. West has announced plans to deploy enough fiber-optic lines and coaxial cable (the pencil-thick wire used by cable systems) across 14 states to deliver "video dial tones" to 13 million households starting next year...
...tremendously devastating not only to Crystal City but to the entire northern Virginia region," Norris said, citing a potential glut of four million square feet of office space precipitated by the move...
...Real estate in northern Virginia is already in a depressed state. The vacancy rate in adjoining counties is high," said Norris, who is also an executive with the Virginia Power Company. "I would think it would have an adverse effect on lease rates throughout the region...