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...series, entitled "The constitution: That Delicate Balance," is produced by the Media and Society Seminars of the Columbia School of journalism and is an outgrowth of a non televised seminar program begun in 1974, in which Nesson participated...
...beach legal wars are largely an outgrowth of rapid coastline development. In Texas, for instance, there was little protest from landowners when the Open Beaches Act was passed in 1959, because at that time the Texas Gulf Coast was sparsely developed. Widespread construction of private homes, hotels and high-rise condominiums has come only in the past ten or 15 years. The new objections, in the wake of Hurricane Alicia, are nothing but "the arrogance of affluence," says Assistant Attorney General Ken Cross. "Building on a beachfront is a gamble with nature. When they take that gamble and put their...
...profusion of free software is an outgrowth of the camaraderie that developed in the mid-'70s, when personal computers were new and commercial software was scarce. Pioneer users, sharing their breakthroughs and building on one an other's work, traded programs much as Little Leaguers swap baseball cards. One of the most popular titles was MODEM, a 1977 program that allowed personal-computer owners to send programming instructions to one another by telephone. Its author, IBM Engineer Ward Christensen, takes pride in never having profited from his labor of love. Says he: "People sometimes send me money...
...Before the end of 1986, telephone users across the U.S. will be asked to pick one of several competing companies as their primary long-distance carrier. If they cannot make up their minds, people will automatically be assigned one of them, probably A T & T. These developments are an outgrowth of the Jan. 1 breakup of the Bell System, and of dozens of regulatory and technical changes in American telecommunications during the past 15 years. Says Edward Carter, marketing vice president of MCI: "For American consumers, it is the most significant change in a day-to-day necessity they...
...concerns include the problems of bulimia and anorexia nervosa. In addition, we wish to address the more common concerns of women regarding body size, weight, and diet. We regard these problems as a logical outgrowth of a culture that makes obsessive and unrealistic demands of thinness on women...