Word: basic
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...industry was deregulated in 1984, critics began calling for new government controls. Many consumers wanted to curb fast- rising rates, while would-be cable competitors wanted authority to enter the business. Last week the House approved a bill that would empower the Federal Communications Commission to set rates for basic service and would require cable firms to lease channels to potential competitors at reasonable prices. But prospects for the bill are uncertain. The Senate is unlikely to complete the legislation before Congress adjourns Oct. 5. Cable operators are generally unhappy with the House bill. But they would be even less...
...provide the solace and daughterly ministrations she longs for. At the same time, she is forced to contend with the racial cancer that is eating the society that surrounds her, stripping even its youngest members of their capacity to care, feel or abide by the most basic rules of human decency...
...million experiment, financed by a group of venture capitalists led by Texas billionaire Edward Bass, has two basic purposes. One is to test ideas for building outposts on other planets, where long stays would be common and resupply impossible. But Biosphere II is more than just the prototype of a space colony. It is a means of learning more about how the earth -- "Biosphere I," in project jargon -- sustains itself through the recycling of water, air and nutrients. Along the way, Space Biospheres Ventures, the company sponsoring the experiment, hopes to find ideas it can market, from air-purification technologies...
...angry Soviet consumers, Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov has come to personify just about everything that is wrong with perestroika. Twice in the past nine months he has tried to come up with an economic plan to save the floundering Soviet economy -- without success. As lines for basic staples, including bread, grow ever longer, confidence in his government has dipped so precipitously that even President Mikhail Gorbachev decided last month to join forces with longtime rival Boris Yeltsin, leader of the Russian Republic, in drafting an alternative plan. Thus when Ryzhkov stepped to the podium of the Supreme Soviet last week...
...instinctive level. I understand a woman who, walking home, immediately fears a man she sees on the street. I understand how a person of color may be wary of being harassed by a white police officer. And I understand how someone can resent like hell those who have their basic needs met automatically, seemingly effortlessly, and who have opportunities that they might not even deserve...