Word: pg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company has gone out of state, creating an affiliate that has joined forces with Bechtel Enterprises to build and operate power plants in 17 states from Oregon to Florida. "In no way, shape or form are we moving away from electric generation as part of our business," says PG&E president Robert Glynn Jr. "We've transformed what years ago was a utility company focused on northern and central California into a national and what is beginning to be a global energy company...
...models of DVD players should reach the market this year at prices ranging from less than $500 to more than $1,000. All offer DVD's stunning sound and vision, along with the various bells and whistles that digital storage's interactive ease and sheer data acreage allow, including PG- and R-rated versions of a given movie on one disc, multiple languages, no rewinding, movie-and-game pairings, instant searches and every custom setup and picture adjustment that early adopting cinephiles could possibly get all hot and bothered over...
Sounds tidy, if a little unoriginal, as the proposed ratings vary only slightly from the well-known M.P.A.A. ratings (G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17) affixed to theatrical movies. What many child advocates object to is that the ratings would not specify the content that makes a show potentially objectionable. The advocates were hoping for a system closer to one being tested in Canada that rates shows, on a sliding scale of 1 to 6, in each of three areas: violence, sex and language...
...Valenti panel but opposes the new system, says, "I'm a parent of four, and what I really want when I look at a movie or a television program is to know what the content is. Is there sexuality? Is there violent content? A rating of TV-PG doesn't give me that information." In a survey released by the Media Studies Center, 79% of the parents polled said they preferred a system that specifies the objectionable content to a general one giving only age limits...
...will a simple system do the job? Just as in movies, most prime-time television shows will probably fall into the large middle ground--particularly the PG rating, which might well include everything from Boy Meets World to a racy episode of Seinfeld. In truth, the system seems motivated less by an urge for simplicity and more by a desire to avoid the red-flag V rating, which would probably scare off many advertisers--and, once the V chip comes into operation, erode the ratings of violent shows. "I think the industry has gone out of its way to develop...