Word: accession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kanturek said Adamec pledged to seek access to state-run media for the opposition, and permission to publish its own journals. The premier also said he would try to obtain the release by Dec. 10--International Human Rights Day--of political prisoners named by Civic Forum, he said...
...free society to function effectively, people need full access to information. As part of the recent "merger mania," the ownership of the mass media in the United States has been concentrated to an alarming degree in the hands of fewer and fewer large corporation. Independent newspapers and magazines have been bought out by major chains, and the radio and television networks are controlled by such powerful companies as General Electric (which now owns...
...last month's California earthquake. KRON, the NBC affiliate in San Francisco, tried to transmit its footage of the disaster to NBC via satellite. But for more than an hour after the tremor, a glitch-prone NBC network was unable to broadcast any live reports. Meanwhile, CNN, which had access to the same satellite signal, was airing KRON's vivid images of the destruction...
Bids spiral to new records, and foreign investors scramble to buy, shifting old power bases. In a market it no longer controls, America sells more than it buys, the art world turns into the Art Industry, and liquidity is all. The result is that people are being deprived of access to their cultural heritage, and the richness of visual experience is collapsing under the brute weight of price...
...perfect working order and then not allow anyone to use it. This is as true for the football field as for the pool. But given that utilization is explicitly the justification for the existence of these resources, there needs to be a way to accommodate both the community's access and assurance...