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...boycott may have been more of a plug for the study group than a drawback, as 43 people attended Carr's introductory meeting, anunusually large crowd for a not-for-credit studysession...
...unethical conduct. That is a serious charge against any broadcaster, since the Federal Communications Commission can revoke the licenses of companies it considers to be of questionable character -- even if they are not convicted of violating the law. Last week the FCC may finally have pulled RKO's plug. Edward Kuhlmann, an FCC administrative law judge, denied RKO's application to renew its license for KHJ-TV in Los Angeles, and stripped the company of its licenses for twelve radio stations and one other TV outlet. Declared Kuhlmann: "No case ever before decided by this commission presents dishonesty comparable...
...Francisco, have effectively mobilized to confront AIDS by lobbying for federal funds, creating group homes for AIDS sufferers and recruiting volunteers to staff hot lines, there is almost no support for AIDS sufferers who are addicts. A 34-year-old black homosexual in Manhattan says he was able to "plug into" gay support groups "for emotional and physical help." But in Harlem, he laments, afflicted addicts "just wait for death, which often comes on the street because so many of them are homeless...
...quiet, maybe a bit too quiet. America's economic problems seemed to be taking a summer vacation last week, as if to give the incoming Federal Reserve chairman, the new U.S. money czar, a few moments to plug in his computer terminal and sharpen his pencils before the first crisis. To a remarkable degree, everything was going Alan Greenspan's way, as the nominee prepared for the Herculean job of succeeding the retiring Paul Volcker. The Dow Jones industrial stock average zoomed to a new peak of 2572.07. The dollar, which had spent much of the past two years...
...also want to use the year to just plug some holes in my education," said Dietrich. "The additional education will be of value in my future work--it will show up in my stories and how I do them...