Word: various
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seminars discussed the history and economics of the Marshall Plan from various perspectives, along with its current implications and applications to Central America," said Jessica Marc...
...noticed, Wilde realized, is to exist; clothes make the man. At various times throughout his life he favored such accessories as lilac shirts and heliotrope neckties, knee breeches, outlandish overcoats that shimmered in the shifting light. He turned the appreciation of beautiful things into a private religion, with distinctly public manifestations. To walk about carrying a single lily in his hand was not simply to throb with pleasure but to be observed doing so. News of Wilde's Oxford eccentricities preceded him in the world at large. When he met a friend outside a theater, he overheard someone say, "There...
...Soviet leader was terribly guarded about Communist politics and told Reagan almost nothing of his struggles inside the Kremlin. "He did seem aware of the problems that I have with Congress and the various political factions," Reagan said. "But he does not view events in the Kremlin the same way we view our government. We all know that he has his troubles too. He does not mention them...
...Various schemes have been put forth to make HDTV more widely available. One proposal is for cable TV operators to provide the higher-quality images as an added service for their subscribers. Another is to distribute HDTV programming on high-capacity videodisks, much as videotapes are distributed today. A third approach involves splitting the HDTV signal into two parts and transmitting it over two separate broadcast channels. Old TV sets could utilize enough of the signal to provide a standard-quality picture, while an HDTV receiver could display the higher-resolution image...
Phone companies contend that state regulations prevent them from censoring messages carried over their wires, and many courts have agreed, striking down various efforts to restrict the services. But there have been two rulings that give hope to the antiporn forces. In Arizona and Florida cases, federal appeals courts drew a distinction: government action against dial-a-porn might violate the First Amendment, they said, but as a matter of private policy, phone companies could turn away purveyors of such services...