Word: preventable
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What really alarms the music industry about the digital tape is its quality. Free of tape hiss and static crackling common to ordinary tape and record players, the DAT's sound is so fine that it is bound to encourage home taping of prerecorded music. To prevent unauthorized duplication, record companies and industry organizations have joined ranks to demand that manufacturers of digital players equip them with special computer chips that block the copying of prerecorded music. The Reagan Administration is expected this week to introduce legislation to require such protection...
...experience is any guide, the music industry will be hard pressed to prevent consumers from enthusiastically embracing the new technology. Says Sony Spokesman David Kawakami: "Every day we get hundreds of calls asking when DATs will be in the stores." Congress may want to consider the potential consumer outrage before passing a law that restricts home digital recording...
...interpretation of the treaty, which emphasizes an appendage that may allow the development of systems based on "physical principles" that were unknown when the treaty was written. The State Department agreed that this interpretation is "legally correct," but Secretary of State George Shultz has so far been able to prevent the Administration from abandoning the more restrictive reading that has been in force for 15 years...
...could tell me how you handle your sex life." When police searched Smith's house they found pornographic material, including books with titles like Her Four-Legged Lover. He claimed to be exploring the use of animals as sexual surrogates and writing a book tentatively called How to Prevent Homosexuality in Your Children. His basement contained items of even more interest to the law: 580 grams of marijuana, illegal pills, stolen office equipment, four gallons of nitric acid, gun silencers made from automobile oil filters and Brink's security-guard uniforms used in a robbery of a Sears store. Smith...
...BEGINNING of the end for the Nicaraguan contras is in sight. On Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution, by a vote of 11-9, to prevent President Reagan from releasing the final $40 million of the $100 million contra aid package passed last year. Now it's time to capitalize on this victory and force a broad reversal of United States' Central American policy...