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Most adults have never put much stock in hard rock, but they may soon find MTV, the rock-video cable channel, a promising investment. Considered a risky venture when it made its debut in 1981, MTV has already attracted an audience of 21.8 million households. In August the channel's owners, American Express and Warner Communications, are expected to offer the first public shares in a new company called MTV Networks, which comprises the rock network and a children's cable channel, Nickelodeon. The corporate owners plan to sell 5.1 million shares priced at $16 to $18 each...
Revenues for the channel have ballooned from $2 million in its first year to $49.8 million...
Built by the Army, a river channel will be filled in by Florida
...fair-to-exciting swimmer. I guess I put as much energy into swimming at that age [ten] as I ever did into track and field. I wanted to swim the English Channel. I told my father: I want to know something about this English Channel. Why are these people swimming it? How does one swim with, you know, the sharks? How do swimmers go to the bathroom? What happens in the night? And then I learned about the Olympic Games. And I said: Oh, wow. I'd like to do that...
Through all the thaws and chills of Soviet-American relations, one channel has remained open for 21years: the Moscow-Washington hotline. This week, after nearly a year of sporadic negotiating, the two countries are expected to sign a pact to modernize the outmoded equipment. Most recently upgraded in 1976, the teleprinters are able to send material at the sluggish rate of 66 words-a- minute. The new system will permit almost instant transmission of texts, maps and photos. While hardly a diplomatic break through, the accord represents the only substantively new superpower agreement since Reagan took office; with the more...