Word: ten
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...Wright, the sinking Speaker of the House, summoned the media to say he was delighted that the big hearing this Tuesday on his motion to dismiss charges of breaking House rules will be wide open and televised. This after he and his phalanx of lawyers spent ten days fighting to keep the session off the screen. The monster just would not heel. Television will likely encourage...
...Japanese have yet to pick a successor to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, who announced his resignation in April over a stock scandal; in West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrat Union has lost two important local elections this year. Moreover, even though the yield on such securities as ten-year U.S. Treasury bonds has slipped from 9.2% earlier this month to 8.8% last week, it remains higher than the return on comparable securities abroad...
...cable networks proliferate, many operators are limited in how many channels they can accommodate with outmoded transmission equipment. "The real problem is channel capacity," says Michael Luftman, a spokesman for ATC. Reason: many cable systems were built at least ten years ago, when the technology permitted room for only 36 channels. That capacity will grow to some 70 or more channels in the 1990s as operators around the country install new equipment. The advanced hardware will create more room for rivals on the same system and a wealth of new programming opportunities for everything from local news shows to solemn...
...miles to the northwest, the spirit of Western boosterism took a fall almost as jarring as the Denver vote was exhilarating. In another special election, Seattle voters approved severe restrictions on the height and size of buildings that can be put up in the downtown area during the next ten years. The limits were contained in a citizens' initiative put forward as an alternative to a less restrictive plan favored by the city council and Mayor Charles Royer. With a turnout of only 23%, the tougher rules were approved...
That, to Hurlbut, is what local activism is all about. "Ten years ago," he recalls, "people thought this filth was just something that came with the urban landscape. Now there's a consciousness that we don't have to stand by and let it happen...