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...increased VTR recording and hence delayed viewing. In any event, home use of VTRs has passed the point of no return. As U.C.L.A. law school's Melville Nimmer, an authority on copyright, points out, "It's fundamentally a part of the whole technological revolution. The old copyright system of control at the source is breaking down. It's impossible to turn time back -or smash the machines...
Says Zoralee Steinberg, who heads Denver County's "diversion" (i.e., from the criminal justice system) program for young offenders: "The insight these kids have is amazing...
Though the greenback strengthened a bit late last week as the markets anticipated new dollar defense moves, worry remains deep about the future of the monetary system that helped create the world's postwar prosperity. The central problem is the roughly 1 trillion footloose dollars that slosh around banks and currency markets outside the U.S. For many years during the 1950s and 1960s, Europeans complained about a "dollar gap." Greenbacks were the only currency that was accepted everywhere, though there were not enough of them around to finance world trade and development. But the dollar gap has since become...
With five minutes left in the second 10 minute overtime, it appeared that the public address system would announce a 110-minute tie. But the Big Red would have it otherwise, as Cornell tallied at 105:23 to seal a 1--0 defeat of the Crimson...
...would be a movable floor for the Bright Arena ice-rink, modelled after the Boston Garden surface. "There would be five teams, the three hockey teams and the two basketball teams, in the same building, though. It would be awkward," Bertagna said. Reardon emphasized the cost of this complicated system...