Word: variously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fannie Mae Foundation grant will also underwrite the preparation of a series of case studies on housing policy to be used in various courses and the production of regional forums on housing and community development...
...youth, Braun, 40, didn't seem headed for the real world. A native of Los Angeles, he spent eight years going to various colleges--Claremont Colleges in Pomona, Lake Tahoe Community College, Sacramento State--without ever receiving a degree. Eventually, he dropped out to earn $15 to $20 an hour working for a video-game distributor. "I got a lot of experience playing the early arcade games," he says with a grin, "'testing,' as we used to say, to make sure the machines worked properly--for hours...
...generate genuine feelings. "This is not the same as reading Playboy," says psychologist Sherry Turkle of M.I.T, author of Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Simon & Schuster; $25). "There really is another person there, and that person can touch you and move you in various ways, emotionally and sexually...
...government, shows considered unfriendly to families are prohibited from airing before 10 p.m. Similar rules apply throughout Europe. Definitions of unsuitable fare are so vague, however, that networks often run what turns out to be objectionable programming and pay the penalties later. The Independent Television Commission, one of various monitoring groups in Britain, recently fined MTV Europe $90,000, in part for running explicit sex-themed talk shows in the morning and early evening. In France a government-operated FCC equivalent known as the CSA fined two French networks a total of $2 million in 1989 for airing violent movies...
MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: The Republican presidential contenders spent Monday crossing the state in a final media blitz before the first polls open at 6 am E.S.T. Tuesday. With three of the top four candidates appearing on various morning talk shows Monday morning, Bob Dole was conspicuous in his absence. Alexander accused Dole of ducking interviews: "There have been more sightings of Elvis in New Hampshire than there have been of Senator Dole," Alexander said. "We've been out here every day," Dole shot back. "I don't know what his problem is. I hope he gets over it." Tracking polls...