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...City's specially-created Office of Cable Television--which operates on an annual budget of $139,000 and employees a staff of three--for a glance at the 300-page report of state mandated rules which guided the cable franchises through the bidding process. Or request a peak at the transcripts of more than eleven hours of public hearings conducted in January...
...week. The Dow finished at 1277.72, up a mere 1.66. In fact, that was only the end result of a heart-stopping, up-and-down week of heavy trading and tumult, of ecstasy and then anxiety. On Tuesday the Dow surged nearly 15 points, to close at a historic peak of 1292.62, breaking the previous record of 1287.20, set on Nov. 29, 1983. No sooner had the shouting stopped, however, than institutional investors, including pension funds, insurance companies and bank trust departments, began to cash in their profits, causing the Dow to give up most of its gains...
...hours they played clear, strong rock, veering now and then toward folk, and once, surprisingly, toward the kind of electronic music that bright young conservatory professors are putting together with computers and tapes. To an outsider it was fine and enjoyable; to the Dead Heads it was a rare peak of brilliance. Most of the audience knew that the wife and baby of Veteran Roadie Steve Parish had been killed two days before in an auto accident, and they assumed that the performance was a special effort, a memorial. But the Dead are always private; no announcement was made...
...health and engineering. The median age has risen from 23 in the 1960s to 28 today. Volunteers make an average of $215 a month plus expenses during the usual two years of service. The total number of volunteers has remained at about 5,500 since 1981, far below the peak of 15,550 in 1966, but interest in the agency is picking up. Since the Peace Corps announced a drive last month to recruit 600 agricultural specialists to help solve food-production problems in Africa, it has received some 10,000 responses...
...binge continued at midweek when the Dow Jones index jumped an additional 15.23 points, to 1274.73. Suddenly the record of 1287.20, set Nov. 29, 1983, seemed within easy reach, and predictions of a new peak were popping up all over Wall Street. At week's end, though, the Dow closed...