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...CABLE COMPANIES THAT FILL OUR HOMES WITH more TV channels than we know what to do with have been threatening for years to adopt technology that could compound the problem tenfold. Now one of them is poised to actually do it. Tele-Communications Inc., which provides cable TV to 9 million U.S. households, announced plans to install equipment that could, in theory, deliver more than 500 channels by early 1994. TCI's announcement represents the first major consumer application of compressed-digital TV, which can squeeze 10 channels in the space currently occupied by only one. Not to be outdone...
...Russian President Boris Yeltsin freed prices on Jan. 2, most food except bread virtually disappeared from stores. On the city's once elegant Nevsky Prospekt, shoppers at a small grocery store stared bleakly at cans of Finnish sardines, lollipops and American M&M candies. With prices freed, costs soared tenfold against an average salary that stayed at 400 rubles a month: sausage now costs 100 to 200 rubles a kilo (2.2 lbs.), and even sour cream, a Russian staple, goes for 130 rubles a kilo. Said a city council member: "Our energy level is lower because we are not receiving...
...notion that learning should be unpolluted by the classroom -- is an eccentricity that has become a national movement. "Pick the menu. It's your meal," intones Stephen Moitozo, a home-school parent in Auburn, Me. Upwards of 500,000 U.S. children are being schooled at home, a tenfold increase in a decade. Their ranks are still swelling. In Maine alone this year, there were 1,500 parental applications to state authorities for permission to teach children at home, in contrast to four in 1981. "We have everything from Black Muslims to Jews and one woman who is a cross between...
While some critics argue that the absence of such amenities in foreign markets will limit the company's overseas growth, such talk hardly discourages Masato. He predicts that Mizuno's sales in Japan will climb more than 100%, to $2.6 billion, by 2001, while foreign revenues will grow tenfold, to about $650 million. At the same time, Masato wants to make Mizuno goods the worldwide standard for quality just as his grandfather Rihachi made Mizuno baseballs the standard in Japan. It was Rihachi who decreed that when an official Japanese ball was dropped from a height...
...lived so well," says former Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff. Statistics bear him out. In the past three decades the supply of goods and services has quintupled and consumption quadrupled. The living standard since the '50s has improved at an annual rate of 4%. Net monthly income has expanded tenfold in that period, hourly wages almost eightfold. In the early '60s, the average family spent half its income on food and household goods; today the figure is slightly over 20%. Nearly as much -- 15% -- is devoted to leisure activities and holidays...