Word: unlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operators of local cable-TV systems. After the merger, Time Warner will serve 5.6 million customers, or 12% of U.S. households with cable. The new operation will still be smaller than the largest cable company, Tele-Communications, which serves 24% of the industry's customers. Experts say that unless President Bush takes a tougher antitrust stance than the Reagan Administration did, the Government is not likely to block a Time-Warner merger...
...regional sewage system for Arcata and two neighboring cities accused of dumping inadequately treated wastewater into Humboldt Bay. The plan envisioned a network of pipelines carrying sewage from the bay's communities to a central disposal plant. New state legislation banned pumping waste-water into bays and estuaries unless a city's effluents "enhanced" them...
...Recruit affair has put intense pressure on the Takeshita government, whose popularity is at a record low of 21% in the polls. Opposition parties have called for the Prime Minister to resign unless he acts soon to clear up the scandal. Says one pundit: "Takeshita is in a real...
...guerrillas sound determined to fight unless a newly elected government proves unexpectedly willing to reopen negotiations. Warns Cirilo: "We have a genuine desire for peace. But that should not be mistaken for weakness." Schafik Jorge Handal, head of the Salvadoran Communist Party and one of the F.M.L.N.'s top five comandantes, agrees. "If the military says no to our plan, then that indicates their intention of defeating us militarily," he says. "That would oblige us to respond, and the product would be a deepening of the war." Roberto, a veteran E.R.P. combatant is more direct: "If the elections are held...
...media glare will mean little unless Atwater can show the Black community that he's really offering it something worth a second look. So far, events have shown that Atwater hasn't been too convincing...