Word: rca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first endowed chair at the newly formed Kennedy School Press, Politics, and Public Policy Center. The Stanton Professorship of the First Amendment, which is supported by a $1 million endorsement, was located by grants from CBS Inc. and a variety of other donors including ABC Inc and RCA...
...Atomic Energy Commission allegedly asked the trio in July 1980 to buy various components for a device that can be used to spin high-speed centrifuges. The equipment is manufactured by General Electric Co. at a plant in Hudson Falls, N.Y., and at U.S. factories of Westinghouse Electric Corp., RCA Corp. and Motorola Inc. The three Canadians made ten shipments to Pakistan. They were arrested while attempting to ship the eleventh. The trio later denied that they knew the ultimate purpose of the exports. One of them said that the equipment was for use in a textile plant...
...oscillator aboard the $50 million NOAA-8 weather satellite turned balky last June, the craft began tumbling out of control in its polar orbit. Without power, its systems shut down. All seemed lost, but a determined band of controllers from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), NASA and RCA refused to give up. Over the next ten months and on hundreds of occasions, they beamed radio signals at the errant craft, trying to revive...
...scheduled to file the bankruptcy petition this week, which would protect U.P.I. from its creditors while it puts its finances in order. Any plan then must be approved by a federal court. U.P.I. is expected to continue its efforts to persuade its major creditors (AT&T, American Express, RCA) to accept stock in return for forgiving about $17 million in debts...
...developing toward stocks of communications companies, portending more big mergers and fast price rises. ABC stock shot up $31, to nearly $106, and issues of some other companies in the field also climbed sharply. At week's end CBS had gained 20 1/4, to 108 3/ 4, and RCA, parent of NBC, had risen 4 7/8, to 42 7/8. Newspaper publishers Gannett and Knight-Ridder were up too, as was the stock of Chicago's Tribune Co. Australian Publisher Rupert Murdoch, whose properties include the New York Post and New York magazine, added even more zest to the media merger...