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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Rescue teams continued to search for other possible survivors in the tangled debris of El Asnam last week, but with dwindling chances of finding life. Instead, with increasing frequency, they found more bodies. The killer quake, which created an initial shock of 7.5 on the Richter scale and a rapid succession of 20 other tremors, left fully 80% of the town destroyed. The initial estimate of 25,000 deaths was later reduced by more than half. Still, with the toll already at 6,000, the El Asnam quake was far worse than the previous one that had destroyed the city...
...Sheehy series touched off minor competitive dramas in several cities where it appeared. In San Francisco, where the Tribune Syndicate's regular customer is the Examiner (circ. 159,000), the rival Chronicle (circ. 507,000) snatched the series instead. "There was a bleep-up," said an angry Reg Murphy, the Examiner's editor. Murphy struck back with a survey of Bay Area business executives, all of whom said they would hire Cunningham on the spot...
...hold down prices, one major builder in Gwinnett County, Ga., 20 miles north of Atlanta, sells $70,000 houses with up to one-third of the interior space unfinished. Owners can complete the rooms later, when they have the money. Bathroom and kitchen floors are covered with vinyl instead of tile, and closets have sliding doors made out of a light plastic material rather than wood. Boston Builder Anthony Lapuma has turned out the first half dozen of what he calls "workingman's specials." The Cape Cod-style houses sell for $49,900, but the second floor, which...
...Instead of a blanket inclusion in the program of all suppliers, the Carter Administration wants a more modest, and less costly, reform. This would extend coverage only to suppliers of actual, essential components. What is more, such companies would have to show that at least 50% of their output had been going to the firm being directly hit by the import competition...
Cable television, the transmission of TV signals by wire instead of through the air, may still be in its infancy, but it is growing fast. Some 17 million subscribers, who are concentrated primarily in big cities, now use the system. That is an increase of 12.7 million since 1970. Moreover, experts predict that cable TV, which will enable the viewer to receive up to 150 channels of programming, will some day be part of the home entertainment center for families across the U.S. Cable firms are thus jockeying into position in expectation of the fierce battle that will determine which...