Balance Sheet.False Positive Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld nukes the Pentagon's new Office of Strategic Information after it is criticized as a potential source of false stories and propaganda. Tube Boobs The Virginia legislature rejects a call to turn off TVs for a week. "You're asking us to approve something not a single person up here would comply with," one state lawmaker says. The TV-Turnoff Network, a nonprofit group that says TV hurts kids, put forth the failed resolution. Word Play A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel rules that a California public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most firm may use the domain EntrepreneurPR.com, regardless of trademarks held by Entrepreneur magazine Entrepreneur Magazine is a publication that carries news stories about entrepreneurialism, small business management, and business opportunities. This magazine is published monthly, with a total of 12 issues annually. (No special extra issues are published. . The panel decided that use of the word entrepreneur wouldn't confuse consumers. Fine Tuning The D.C. Court of Appeals shoots down two Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. rules on the ownership of cable and broadcast TV stations. The rule limiting each company's combined audience to 35 percent of the national market is removed, as is the ban on cable/broadcast cross-ownership in local markets. Whistle Stop Senators from both parties want new controls on the FBI, including an inspector general's office with teeth. Under proposed legislation, FBI employees would also be protected by the Federal Whistleblower whis·tle·blow·er or whis·tle-blow·er or whistle blower n. One who reveals wrongdoing within an organization to the public or to those in positions of authority: "The Pentagon's most famous whistleblower is . . Act for the first time. Stunning Development United Airlines doesn't wait for Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control (FAA) approval to start training pilots to use stun guns, which will be locked in the cockpit. With an FAA OK, stun guns could be on United flights by summer's end. Securing Secrets Lawmakers prepare to vote on the Maryland Security Protection Act. In addition to banning "price gouging" during a state of emergency, the act would keep more state records secret. Nationally, at least 301 laws have been proposed to roll back open records rules. Continental Cuisine French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin celebrates bloated agriculture subsidies Payments by the federal government to producers of agricultural products for the purpose of stabilizing food prices, ensuring plentiful food production, guaranteeing farmers' basic incomes, and generally strengthening the agricultural segment of the national economy. . "Agriculture must not obey liberal rules, it must be organized," he tells farmers. As the E.U. expands, French farmers could face competition from poorer E.U. countries. Penny Ante Deep inside the Library of Congress, the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel Three-member ad hoc board empowered to make decisions regarding ratemaking and distributions of copyright royalties collected for compulsory licenses under the Copyright Act of 1976. decides that Internet radio stations should pay 0.14 cent for every song they play. The new royalties go to the record labels; music publishers require a separate fee. Many online stations say they can't afford it. Risk Premium Commercial lenders insisting on imaginary "zero risk" demand terrorism insurance for properties. Most landlords comply, hiking rents to pay the thousands of extra dollars. A hopeful sign: One property, the Mall of America Mall of America (also MOA, MoA, or the Megamall) is a shopping mall located in the Twin Cities suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota. It is just southeast of the junction of Interstate 494 and Minnesota State Highway 77, and is across the interstate from the , went to court and won a reprieve. Liquored Up Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) leads a 13-congressman assault on NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. for airing liquor ads. NBC parent General Electric is warned that the ads could be "the reason that Congress steps in to protect the public interest and public airwaves" by regulating advertising. Nightmare Drive State agencies in Pennsylvania unload old computer hard drives but neglect to erase all the data on them. The result: Hundreds of drives with personal data such as Social Security numbers of state residents could be floating around. Identity theft, anyone? |
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