Word: tele
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...America a monarchy true, but this coronation will simply recognize a falt accompli: Ronald Reagan has become our royal pet. What a magnificent image he projects! Thousand, perhaps millions revere him. Even his enemies call him the Great Communicator. As long as he is fed fine speeches by the tele-prompter and--with the right lights--looks bracingly American, no one cares if he rides horses when he should be working, or is fed lines by Nancy at press conferences. In all honesty, he would be a great ruler if he were not running the government--something which is even...
...trend is readily noticeable in the arts and media. Jack Lang, the assertive, France-first Minister of Culture, has dropped his complaints about "American cultural imperialism." The proportion of U.S. programming on French television has increased from 9% only four years ago to 17%. Says Etienne Mougeotte, publisher of Tele 7 Jours, the French equivalent of TV Guide: "My children watch every segment of Dallas and Dynasty every week. Otherwise they would be out of it in school...
...Sunday Tele ram in Worcester, Mass., and the News-Free Press in Chattanooga, Tenn., also refused to carry the magazine...
...more customers and hanging on to them longer. Currently the company loses about 40% of its customers annually because of MCI's long and cumbersome access codes or occasionally poor connection quality that is due to inadequate switching systems. Those difficulties should ease with equal access to local tele phone systems...
...most talked-about new schemes for persuading a prized employee to stay with a company is to lavish on the person something called junior stock. Conceived in 1979 by Genentech, the bioengineering firm, junior stock has been widely used by such firms as Tele-Video Systems and Amdahl, two computer companies, and Cetus, another bioengineering concern. The plan has been particularly popular in California's Silicon Valley, where firms need all the incentives they can find to keep the engineers and scientists from job hopping. Some 200 high-tech firms have either issued junior shares or considered doing...