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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Diller was named CEO of Paramount Pictures. With Eisner, whom he installed as president, Diller made it the most profitable Hollywood studio, year in and year out. He was considered a lock for the chairmanship of Gulf & Western, Paramount's parent company. Then he lost a power struggle and jumped ship for 20th Century Fox in 1984. His reason for subsequently leaving Fox in 1992 was straightforward: "It's not mine," he said at the time. "I'm both young enough and old enough to want to own my own store ... It's the one thing I haven't done...
...senator, Dole has steadfastly opposed any rise in the minimum wage, allowing it to fall to a forty-year low in buying power. He has tried to curtail the Earned Income Tax Credit, a way to ensure that no parent with children can work a 40-hour week while remaining mired in poverty. But now on the campaign trail, Dole is nice enough to point out that, "the real average hourly wage is five percent lower than it was a decade...
Michael E. Ginsberg asserts that "pictures of naked people" are not protected by the First Amendment. Apparently Ginsberg would be unperturbed if, say, Michelangelo's David was censored, or if any parent or artist that took a photograph of a naked child was arrested-the recent case of Harvard Extension student Toni Marie Angeli being only the most recent example of such prosecutions/persecutions...
...chip will be welcomed by many parents who despair of monitoring the multitude of TV programs available to their kids. The device has already been a godsend for politicians--a way of seeming to take action on TV violence while avoiding sticky issues of censorship or government control. Most children's activists welcome the device, yet recognize it is not a panacea. "The V chip doesn't do anything to decrease violence," says Arnold Fege of the National Parent-Teacher Association. "There are parents who are not going to use it at all. But it does give parents some control...
...protesters, she was also aware that somehow it wasn't her fight and she could only be a spectator and an outsider. She says the experience made her eager to return to her own roots. After only a few more weeks in South East Asia, Phillips returned to her parent's home in Claremont, California and began working on White Rabbit...