Word: stationers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playoff spot in the NCAA tournament has begun, and three early favorites have jumped out of the 17-member pack. Merrimack is atop the ECAC Division II race, and Alaska-Fairbanks and Alaska-Anchorage are featured on the top of a new poll of independent teams taken by radio station KBYR in Anchorage...
Karl's spirit guides had been advising her to go to the Incan empire's sacred Lake Titicaca in Bolivia (the Andes seem to be a favorite way station for UFOs). "They sort of told us we would meet them," she says. "I won't believe it until I see them and talk to them and feel the panel on the spaceship. But maybe it is time for people to know they have help." And so, starry-eyed and full of hope, Karl headed southward, and she did catch a distant glimpse of what she took to be a spaceship...
...dirty words" made famous in a comedy routine by George Carlin. The new ruling broadened the standard to include anything that depicts sexual or excretory activity in terms that are "patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium." Under FCC policy, a TV or radio station faces possible fines and even the loss of its license if it airs such material when there is a "reasonable risk" that it will reach children. But not until last week did the FCC specify acceptable hours. (Outright "obscene" material, such as hard-core pornographic movies, is banned...
...Media, complained that the decision will open the floodgates to post- midnight smut: "There's no reason that raunch-radio persons won't become raunch-television persons." Broadcasters and civil libertarians, meanwhile, continue to object that the commission's definition of indecency is distressingly vague. Most network and local station officials insist that their standard on what is permissible will not change because of the ruling. Still, it could open the way for more explicit radio conversation in the wee hours, more uncut movies on post-midnight TV, and perhaps even a few more naughty words sneaking by the censor...
Neither team will be allowed inside the other's missile factories, but each can station round-the-clock monitors to inspect cargo at the exits and perimeter. In addition, each country will be allowed to make 20 surprise visits to suspected weapons facilities during the first three years of the treaty, 15 during the next five years and ten annually in the remaining five years. U.S. officials will be able to fly into Moscow or Irkutsk, and Soviets into Washington or San Francisco, without advance notice of the site to be inspected...