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...sought was owned by a public-television station, WQED. Approval of the transfer was under consideration at the FCC for four years. Late last year Paxson executives gave and helped raise $20,000 for the McCain campaign. Soon after, McCain asked the FCC to vote quickly on whether to allow the company to acquire the license. FCC chairman William Kennard, a Democrat, wrote back a sharply worded rebuke to the Senator complaining that he was interfering in agency deliberations...
...little-noticed move last June, McCain tried to attach to a telecommunications bill a provision that would have made it easier for broadcast groups to own more than one TV station in a market. McCain's measure was dropped when Democrats objected. In August the FCC moved to allow many of the changes McCain wanted. One result: Paxson's stock price jumped more than 30% as it became more attractive to other large broadcasters. McCain said last week that his job as Commerce Committee chairman "is to make the bureaucrats work for the people." But when it helps contributors...
...coincidence. But for those willing to surrender themselves to Coupland's inventively of-the-minute language ("You two are the most drag-and-click people I've ever met") and his ability to see beauty in the discards of our consumer and pop culture, there's plenty here to allow a pattern of static to resolve itself into the face of love...
MAGELLAN'S RISK Fidelity wants to allow its Magellan Fund to invest as much as 25% of its assets in one company--up from 5%. This will potentially lessen the fund's diversification and increase its risk. If that worries you, better check the fine print of your other funds. Most companies already allow managers to invest up to 25% of a fund's assets in a single company, but most funds keep their maximum exposure well under...
...financial position seemed to allow us to hold the fee level constant and to maintain the level and ambition of programs, as well as to maintain need-blind admissions," Kolesar said...