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...prospect of reregulation is sure to be Topic A as industry executives gather in Atlanta this week for their annual convention. Though the severity of Washington's legislation is still an open question, the tide may be turning for one of the hot businesses of the late 1980s. Cable companies are already suffering from investor wariness. The largest U.S. cable operator, Denver- based Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), which draws 78% of its revenues from cable, has seen its stock price fall 29% since early October, to 14 3/4. Time Warner, which derives 25% of its revenues from cable programming...
...weeks and spawned five hit singles) and so dizzying that it hasn't left her time to make a follow-up record. Her newly released Shut Up and Dance is an album of Forever remixes slicked up at the sound board. The idea is to tide fans over until she finishes choreographing Oliver Stone's film biography of Jim Morrison. She had better hurry...
Borne into the U.S. on private jets, inside the scuzzy trunks of old cars or even on flimsy rubber rafts equipped with cellular phones, the shipments of human cargo are surging. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 was supposed to stem this tide, mostly by beefing up enforcement and nabbing employers who hire these aliens. But the number of illegals apprehended by federal agents, 954,000 in 1989, is suddenly rising sharply. In a perverse way, IRCA has enhanced the smuggling trade by motivating undocumented aliens to plan their trips more carefully. Result: up to half the estimated...
...bill was proposed by Sen. William Keating (D-Sharon), who said the measure could stem the tide of dropouts and save the state money in the long term...
...outcry presents a dilemma for cigarette makers, brewers and distillers. If they fight the tide too strenuously, they risk further damage to their public image. But if they reduce their advertising profile too readily, their outlets for marketing could be extremely limited. In their defense, tobacco- and alcohol-industry groups contend that curbs on advertising violate their First Amendment rights to advertise products that are, after all, legal. "These warning-label bills are just another attempt to get around that," says Lauria, the Tobacco Institute spokesman...