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Battalion/Page 7B February 17, 1982 138! features d Required spending to affect debt limit 1> armed ' way. Ab i' media atched. 'other^ le bii baseball hreequai ic laundii ned for ed up »| '■biterwidB twin . r; t er than die third bia-An spacecral heduled lay, is a ill Puryear’s visitor to Peeping Toms prevail photo by Athena Vourvoulias lowest floor get down on forces even the shortest their knees. Doug Ross, a junior P.E. major from Victoria visits Dale, a pre-med junior also from Victoria. Donald United Press International After swallowing a dose of political castor oil by voting to raise the ceiling past the $ 1 tril lion mark last fall, with the promise they wouldn’t have to do it again until after this year’s election, Senate Republicans will have to vote a higher debt limit because of mandatory spending required by recession-related unemployment and welfare programs. “The debt-limit ceiling is going to be one tough fight,” promises Sen. Alan Simpson (R- Wyo). Simpson is among the supply-side diehards who pushed Reagan’s historic budget cuts to passage last year but who now is having different thoughts. What unsettles Republicans is that for all his talk about balanc ing the budget, Reagan is going in the opposite direction, stick ing with large tax cuts and high er defense spending to drain the Treasury further. “Fifty-three Republican sena tors went to the mat for the pres ident (last year),” says Simpson. “We’re willing to do it again but on a much more selective basis. Most of us have alienated every mother’s milk,” leading to “a? constituency in the country, perception of meanness of: We’ve been against children and heart.” Hillel Jewish Student Foundation “The Orthodox Woman in Modern Day Society” Please join Mrs. Radinsky, wife of Rabbi Joseph Radinsky, from United Orthodox Synagogues. EVERYONE IS WELCOME! Wednesday, Feb. 800 Jersey 696-7313 17 8'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION Business is an ‘empire’ Rental has few rivals $195 Specials s, is the™ todai.StB United Press International ', it expIcffiNEW YORK — When Brian defenseJWolfson says, “The two most wastefiillmistrusted people in America I admiralltodav are the auto mechanic and it the lastjthe TV repairman,” who can re proper [Main from “Amen?” 1 of war * It is upon that “Amen” that been in jWolfson is building what he con- 29 vtftently predicts will be a televi- tphorism sion empire. icangentH He owns no television sta- ause he'lions, syndicates or cable sys- ementmlms. He produces no program- tication Mg — not even on an import on of sell basis from his native England which seems to supply much of ible la™the best in the public broadcast- itegratediiing sector. h about p Brian Wolfson doesn’t even :y of ch ised in ironies. sell television sets. He rents Bern, and if his American ven ture matches similar ventures (elsewhere;, he soon will be the ^unchallenged king of the “98- cent-a-day” video rental busi ness. I Wolfson runs Rentacolor Inc. which, with 50 branches, already is the nation’s largest TV rental business. | His domestic headquarters are in Hartford, Conn., but be learned his trade in England, where up to half the viewing au dience uses rented receivers, and in a worldwide market where he said the capital invest ment in set rentals now runs be tween $10 billion and $12 bil lion. Possibly because the Amer ican dream always has been to own its own hardware, Wolfson has not a single American com petitor in the rental business — at least not in the mode in which he operates. Like his own firm, his only rivals, including Grana da which he once directed, are British-based. But why should anyone eschew title to a television set that eventually will be paid off in favor of monthly rental install ments that go on and on? That, said Wolfson, is where the sinis ter TV repairman comes in — or, in this case, goes out. “In the minds of most people, radio is magic and television is black magic,” he said. “If your set breaks on Friday and you want to have it fixed for the big game on Sunday and you call the IV repairman, he won’t give you service. For rental payments — rang ing from $ 14.95 a month up, de pending upon equipment re nted — Wolfson will guarantee constant, uninterrupted service. If the tube blows, a new set will be in its place within 24 hours. If a small screen begins to strain the eyes, a phone call will bring a bigger one into the living room, along with videotape re corders, home video cameras, video disc players, screen games and all the other trappings of the modern electronic enter tainment center. “We’re not cheap,” said Wolf son. “We’re dear, but we’re total insurance. We guarantee 365 days a year of picture at our ex pense.” Wolfson said the only home grown TV rental systems in the United States fall either into the category of short-term rentals to holiday resorts or the rent- purchase arrangement. “There’s a large segment in the country who won’t get a Sears credit rating or any other kind of rating, but feel, ‘yeah, we can probably hack $50 a month,’” he said. “So they get into a rent-purchase deal. The dealer charges them 50 bucks a month (for a set) and after they’ve paid him $1,200, he’ll give it to them. “But 90 percent of the ex pense in running that kind of business is not in giving service. It’s in collecting your money. 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