Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...recommend commuting Prejean's sentence to life imprisonment without parole. And although there were two other executions last week, in Missouri and Texas, it was Prejean's case that inspired protests from Amnesty International and the European Parliament. As Prejean's attorney John Hall argued, "Dalton's lack of control over his behavior is so obvious that it is hardly ennobling to the people of Louisiana what will happen tonight. I'd feel differently if it were Charlie Manson or Ted Bundy. There are truly evil people out there. But Dalton is not that kind of person...
...prospect of whole republics defecting has complicated U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms-control talks. Soviet negotiators have dug in their heels at the last minute in part because the Ministry of Defense is looking to the day when it may have to compensate for lost real estate with extra missiles. "As our overall situation deteriorates," says one official, "we have to reinforce ourselves where we have a vanguard position." Then he adds with a thin smile, "That means the ballet and the Strategic Rocket Forces...
...industry has been through a heady few years. The 1984 Cable Communications Policy Act, passed in the palmy deregulatory spirit of the Reagan Administration, freed most cable systems from local control over their rates and service. Not surprisingly, the cost of basic cable has gone up since then (by 26% between December 1986 and October 1988, according to a General Accounting Office survey). So has the industry's financial health and its spending on new channels and programming...
...issue is a new trend in the drug industry: a growing number of prescription medications, from allergy tablets to birth-control pills, are being promoted directly to consumers in newspaper and magazine ads and even a few TV commercials. Drug companies and some physicians say the ads help educate patients and give consumers a chance to become more involved in choosing the medications they want. But many doctors deplore the marketing tactic. Argues Dr. Nancy Dickey of the American Medical Association: "Splashy ads with limited information are no substitute for four years of medical school and many more of professional...
...help dispel some of the mystery surrounding prescription medication and enable people to take a more active role in their own treatment. Dr. Warren Pearse of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists feels that more ads for oral contraceptives would provide women with a better picture of birth-control alternatives. "The days of keeping patients in the dark have passed," he says...