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Most phone companies want to go even further. For them, video is the last link in their ultimate high-tech fantasy: the Integrated Services Digital Network. ISDN is the phone industry's grand scheme to be the dominant conduit for every conceivable communications service -- from faxes, newspapers and video conferencing to home shopping, radio broadcasts and TV. At least seven phone companies, including Pacific Telesis, Ameritech and BellSouth, are developing the ISDN software for special fiber-optic wires that can carry such multimedia information. But the companies need state regulatory approval for telephone-rate increases to cover installation costs. Public...
...feverish partisan atmosphere of an election year almost guarantees that neither Bush's prescription nor any other competing scheme will be enacted before November. At least 30 different health-care bills are under consideration on Capitol Hill, and every presidential candidate has brandished his own proposal. Most of the ideas fall into three broad categories...
This requires either a "pay-or-play" scheme, forcing businesses to provide coverage for their workers or to pay into a government fund of the otherwise uninsure, or a Canadian style national health insurance system in which the government pays nearly all health costs. Democratic presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Paul Tongs favor the first approach. Jerry Brown and Bob Kerrey supports the second. (Tom Harkin is still on the fence...
...this racial arrangement was a convenient get-rich scheme for the Celtics and the NBA, one that both organizations always understood completely. Both knew their audiences. The Celtics knew white Bostonians. The NBA knew white Americans. There was dual complicity in the marketing of a white team in a predominantly black sport. The Celtics were a team with tentacles reaching deep into the league's burgeoning corporate structure. They were a team with major white stars, a statistically astounding racial balance, and an administrative army of safe, white faces speaking directly to fashionable Boston neighborhoods and its affluent distant suburbs...
...such a boring couple," I always whine. And for a while, I had him believing that it was the fault of his cold, unromantic Yankee Stoicism that we frequented the Hong Kong and talked about Scheme Z more often than we took lingering walks along the Charles under the full moonlight, exchanging intimate secrets...