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Rather than face the street rioting and bus stonings which had plagued Boston, the committee decided to scrap the old system of assigning students to neighborhood schools in favor of a radical new program they called "controlled choice...
Wisely -- and boldly -- the telephone company decided to scrap the whole system and start over. Investing $80 billion between 1975 and 1990, France . Telecom now claims the world's most digitized switching system, meaning that 75% of the lines use digitally transmitted signals for crisper connections. A telephone can be installed in a matter of days, dialing is swift, lines are clear. Public telephones are everywhere...
...Vice President, Bush opposed the sanctions -- though he conceded last week that they had had some effect -- and made no secret of his determination to scrap them as soon as he legally could. When he finally did so, he maintained that he did not have much choice, since South Africa had fulfilled all the conditions required by Congress. There is room for argument about at least one of those conditions: the release of all political prisoners. The African National Congress (A.N.C.) says some 850 remain in jail, while the government in Pretoria insists only criminals remain...
Twelve years into the chaos of airline deregulation, which has seen dozens of new carriers enter the business and fail, U.S. airlines are holding their last big sale. The industry lost a record $2.4 billion last year, sending Eastern to the scrap heap and four major carriers -- Continental, Pan Am, Midway and America West -- into bankruptcy. The last shaky carriers may soon follow. Once dominant TWA and USAir may be forced into mergers or bankruptcy before the end of the year...
...tight budgets and layoffs over the past decade, the agency was very nearly shut down under the Reagan Administration, which in its zeal to privatize government operations briefly proposed selling off the Weather Service's satellite network to the highest bidder. Public outcry forced the White House to scrap its plans...