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...chief targets of the new measures, however, were the mutinous minority groups and their leftist allies. In another fiery speech, Khomeini said flatly: "If we had set up scaffolds in public squares and strung up these devils at the beginning of the revolution, we would have had none of these troubles." In ordering the army and his own Islamic guards to march to Kurdistan, he warned his military commanders: " You will meet revolutionary action yourselves if you fail to move into Kurdistan within 24 hours...
...unimaginative breed." Georgians Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell, says Fallows, cultivate the laid-back style of "cool guys getting the job done without trying too hard or taking it all too seriously." One of the few to win a favorable notice is National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, "high-strung and vain," but also "the one among Carter's senior associates who tried every day to test the limits of his job and come up with new ideas...
...that made regular TV a mass medium and that later made color matter to advertisers." After reaching that point, cable would have a potential for further fast expansion. By industry count, TV cables (made of copper wire wrapped in plastic foam and an outer layer of aluminum) have been strung past just about half of all the TV homes in the U.S. Cable operators could multiply their audience overnight at minimum expense if someone in each of those homes would pick up the phone and order a hookup. Though most viewers ordering cable do so to see late movies...
Cable operators do face some serious obstacles to further growth. The cost of wiring major cities, where cables cannot be strung from poles but must be run underground, is extremely high (as much as $100,000 a mile). Partly for that reason, Chicago does not yet have a cable system and Manhattan is the only one of New York City's five boroughs where viewers can watch cable...
Clifford danced fastball with curve, and his control kept Navy batters baffled until the sixth, when the boys with the short hair strung together a single, a double, and a sacrifice for their only...