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...dishes. About 70% of those homes are in rural areas not wired for cable TV. Programming includes crop and livestock reports, country-music videos, a polka-music show and a smattering of old western movies. Patrick Gottsch, a former satellite-dish salesman who raised $4 million from investors to start RFD-TV, thinks the channel can attract enough advertising to turn a profit in its first year. Says investor Jim Harker of Omaha: "Nobody else is hitting the agricultural market. We're stepping into a vacuum...
Bush advocates a wider use of Head Start, a program he supported when he was a Congressman. He has also talked about child care and has proposed a $2.2 billion package that would provide low-income families with a $1,000-per-child tax credit. Such a tax credit, however, can hardly accomplish what it is designed to do: allow a mother to pay for day care or permit her to stay home with her children. Bush recently underwent a campaign conversion and said he would support raising the minimum wage (as long as it was coupled with a subminimum...
...faced with a benefit cutoff if he or she refuses to work. As a result, much of the hard-core Underclass is beyond the reach of ET. Those who get jobs tend to be those who have been employed in the past. Still, it is a start...
...linebackers, Brian Burns and Greg Ubert, both played on the varsity last year, but neither started. In the secondary, only safety Jim Smith saw much action last year, getting his first start against Holy Cross in the eighth week of the season...
Drought-resistant varieties of grain and cattle will help these agricultural problems. The water problems, however, will only be corrected when commercial users in dry areas start paying the real price for their share of a precious public resource. In areas where clean water is hard to find, the public health must clearly have priority in water rationing. It is just this kind of policy decision that requires leadership and direction at the federal level...