Word: warns
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Senate Banking Committee Chair Alfonse M. D'Amato (R-N.Y.) criticized Summers for failing warn people that the peso was in trouble. However, this criticism was not enough to seriously threaten the nomination of Summers, who received tenure at Harvard before...
...scope of the legislation has brought forth armies of lobbyists to advance the interests of clients ranging from the seven Baby Bell phone companies to cable- TV behemoths like Time Warner and Tele Communications Inc. (TCI). This onslaught of special interests has led consumer advocates and other experts to warn that what began as a laudable attempt to promote competition could wind up benefitting media giants far more than their customers. "The people screwed are the consumers," declares Gary Arlen, a telecommunications consultant in Bethesda, Maryland. "Cable rates will rise in the short term before there's rate relief from...
Later, at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Berkeley, Breslin had to wheel backward into a small, smelly elevator, while other people used escalators. Martinez, who also rides BART, feels safe there, thanks to bumps, or "edge detection strips" that warn the blind away from the edge of the platforms. Despite the tight-elevator problem, bart is regarded as a disability-rights pioneer. "It was such a treat to take this train when I came to California years ago," says Breslin, who was raised in the Midwest. "I'd never lived anywhere where there was access...
...enticing. Serial killers in cable movies, bloody episodes of Tales from the Crypt, grisly crime footage on the local news: How to protect a child from the rude shocks of the tube? Forcing all TV to conform to a safe-for-kids standard seems unfair to adults. Advisories that warn of excessive violence are fine, but who can guarantee what kids will do when parents are out of the room...
...once again, headlines warn of a trade war between the U.S. and Japan--as they have so many, many times in the past 30-odd years. So what else...