Word: tapes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...against Big Government is over, and his Administration has proclaimed itself the victor. After working for 30 months, the President's Task Force on Regulatory Relief has closed up shop with the declaration by its chairman, Vice President George Bush, that it has snipped enough bureaucratic red tape to save U.S. businesses and consumers $150 billion over the next ten years. Said Bush: "These savings will continue to make an important contribution to the economic recovery now under way, without jeopardizing the environment, job or consumer safety, or other regulatory goals...
...view of advocates of regulatory reform, including both liberals and conservatives, the Administration mistook the public's disgust with red tape for hostility to all forms of Government regulation. Polls show that most Americans favor deregulation of industry, especially if it encourages competition. (For example, the Administration's deregulation in such economic areas as banking, bus transportation and telecommunications has provoked relatively little controversy.) But a Harris survey this year showed that 88% of Americans prefer even more stringent standards on clean air, and 91% either favor existing regulations on safety in workplaces or want those regulations made...
There is also a tape cassette of Lourdes hits, including such saccharine hymns as Avec Toi, Bernadette and Ave Maria de Lourdes. The Pope's visit only added to the lively commercial buzz: I LIKE JOHN PAUL II buttons and T shirts appeared on the shelves overnight...
...York Yacht Club, custodian of the Cup and grand panjandrum of its defense, has howled that the radical keel is an infraction of the 12-meter rule, even though it passed muster earlier this year before keen-eyed measurers, including the club's own tape man. With its lowered ballast and jetlike wings, the innovative yacht can slice through the water with less turbulence, turn virtually on a dime, and stand much more erect than its rivals when they beat into the wind, thereby drawing more power from its sails. Remarkably, all this seems perfectly within the rules. Even...
...eight-month tenure, KMBC'S news ratings rose from second place to first in the six-station market, which is the nation's 27th largest. Nonetheless, the station hired consultants to test her appeal further. Perhaps the most damaging evidence against Metromedia was an audio tape of a research discussion in which Steve Meacham, a Media Associates employee, said to a group of local viewers, "Let's spend 30 seconds destroying Christine Craft. Is she a mutt...