Word: overtaxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cable-TV customers--a full two-thirds of American households--may get a sinking feeling of another sort if they try to tune in. Cable companies are refusing, for now, to carry broadcasters' HDTV signals, saying information-rich HDTV channels overtax their systems and will force some existing cable channels off the dial. Viewers who want decent reception, therefore, will have to buy clunky, old-fashioned TV antennas if they plan to pull in digital broadcasts. Both sides hope to resolve the matter, but for the foreseeable future, "there will be a lot of finger pointing going on," says Torie...
...much bed rest can you get when you've got 27 hours of reading per day to do and 36 hours of partying to do every night?" asks David A. Pentlow '95. "I have no idea how we're supposed to not overtax ourselves...