Word: tele
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...accumulated wealth as a yardstick of success rather than as an end in itself. K.P. (Phil) Hwang, 45, emigrated from Korea in the early '60s and worked as a busboy and waiter while attending Utah State University. In 1975 he used $9,000 in family savings to found Tele Video Systems, a company that makes computer screens and keyboards. Although Hwang is now a multimillionaire, he says that his wife still fusses over utility bills and turns down the thermostat at home...
...really important question raised by the breakup of AT&T, of course, is whether it will undermine or enhance the quality of American tele phone service. That is something that no one can know for sure until the divestiture takes place and telephone users across the country actually experience the results. Yet there is good reason to be optimistic...
These are not ordinary reruns, and it is probable that most viewers will react to them not just with pleasure but with shock and astonishment. What no one could have realized until now is that tele vision has not only changed since the '50s, with color and a dozen other technical advances, it has been transformed. It is, indeed, scarcely the same medium. The TV of the '80s is no more like that of the '50s than talking movies are like silents. The loss, it might be added, is immeasurable...
...with the tongues of men and of angels and has not television, he is become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, for it is television that beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things. Says defeated Presidential Aspirant Jerry Brown: "If a person isn't on tele vision, he is a political nonbeing. He does not exist for the voter, even if that voter meets him in person...
Some of the most violent action in tele vision lately appears not on-screen but in broadcasters' boardrooms. The latst victim: Maurice R. Valente, 51, fired iast week as president of RCA Corp. after just six months on the job. Like CBS President John D. Backe, dismissed seven weeks ago by CBS Chairman William S. Paley, Valente had been the heir apparent to a major communications com pany. RCA is the parent company...