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...phone companies and cable-TV systems are jockeying for position in what each views as a potentially vast market but which neither is ready to create. Stuart Brotman, a communications specialist in Lexington, Mass., estimates that cable operators would have to spend $20 billion to $30 billion on digital-compression and fiber-optic technology to prepare their systems for interactive programming. The telephone companies, for their part, would have to invest $300 billion to $500 billion in fiber-optic networks before they could deliver TV-quality pictures into every American's home...
...assistance and taking in 115,000 refugees -- almost twice as many as Hungary, which has the second largest influx. Germany's appeal owes much to its 800,000 guest workers of Yugoslav origin. "Practically everybody has a relative or a friend living in Germany," says Wolf Oschlies, a Yugoslav specialist at Cologne's Federal Institute for Eastern European and International Studies...
...still outstanding is a tenure offer to Duke professor Naomi Schor, a specialist in 19th century French literature. Schor's acceptance, say officials, may be based on Harvard's finding an endowed chair for her, but also on finding a position in the Cambridge area for her husband Paol Keineg, an adjunct associate professor of Romance studies at Duke...
...some point, when you're senior enough, the only respectable form of a job search is waiting for the phone to ring," says Schauer, a specialist in constitutional law with a sub specialty in free speech, the freedom of the press and the First Amendment...
When Afro-American Studies Department Chair HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. was teaching at Cornell University, he was aggressively recruited by both Princeton and Duke. After a long courtship, the Afro-American literature specialist made the move to Duke. But a year later, dissatisfied by the atmosphere in Durham, Gates made the jump again, this time to Harvard...