Word: controller
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...charge are doing the right thing. But they have got precious little reassurance from Washington, where the House last week rejected the long- negotiated $500 billion deficit-cutting package, triggering a government shutdown and the furloughs of thousands of federal employees. "The government looks like it has lost control of the country," says Dwayne Andreas, chairman of the agricultural conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland...
With the breakthrough by Baker and Shevardnadze in an arms-control effort that began in Vienna way back in 1973 as the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction talks, the CSCE summit is firmly set. The completed arms treaty will be signed by the U.S., the Soviet Union and their allies. They will then turn their attention to launching a new security organization...
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...contrary to many parents' fears, have the new video technologies made matters worse. Small children who repeatedly watch their favorite cassettes are, psychologists point out, behaving no differently from toddlers who want their favorite story read to them over and over. (The VCR may actually give parents more control over their kids' viewing.) Video games may distress adults with their addictive potential, but researchers have found no exceptional harm in them -- and even some possible benefits, like improving hand-eye coordination...
...effecting a more profound, if less widely recognized, change in the whole concept of growing up. Before the advent of television, when print was the predominant form of mass communication, parents and teachers were able to control just what and when children learned about the world outside. With TV, kids are plunged into that world almost instantly...