Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to a recent CBS-New York Times poll, 69% of the public still believe that gasoline prices are rising not because there is an energy crisis but merely because the oil companies want to make more money. In a sentiment that is widely shared, Margaret Dadian, vice president of an Illinois sales company, complains: "There is a shortage all right, but not as serious as we are told it is. It is more a question of oil companies' holding back until they can get higher prices. We have Arabs of our own in this country...
...Shell headquarters, and other companies also have their own in-house bureaucrats hovering in the halls. Much of the DOE'S staff has a self-interest in seeing the regulations proliferate: without them, Government workers would be out of jobs. So would small armies of lawyers in Washington, New York and Houston. Says a rich Houston lawyer: "Government regulations have been a real source of new business. The sums of money involved in DOE regulations are astronomical...
...Boston on most nights through the spring and summer, TV baseball fans can alternate between cheering for their beloved Red Sox on Channel 38 and booing the hated Yankees, playing a different team in a different city, on Channel 11. In New York suburbs, minority audiences or the merely curious can sample Spanish-language interview shows or a Korean variety hour or instruction in yoga. In Castro Valley, Calif., older viewers can tune in a weekly program of panel discussions and entertainment produced by and for senior citizens, sometimes featuring performers in their 80s. And all over the country, movie...
Another source of programming for basic cable is the superstations-independent broadcast-TV stations that also lease space on Satcom, whose signals bounce to the earth stations of cable systems all over the country. At present there are four: WTCG in Atlanta, WOR in New York, WON in Chicago and KTVU in the San Francisco-Oakland area. They and their cable customers should benefit especially from the FCC'S proposal last week that cable operators be permitted to pick up as many signals as they like from anywhere, and a companion proposal that cable companies be permitted...
...growth. The cost of wiring major cities, where cables cannot be strung from poles but must be run underground, is extremely high (as much as $100,000 a mile). Partly for that reason, Chicago does not yet have a cable system and Manhattan is the only one of New York City's five boroughs where viewers can watch cable...