In particular, he spoke in favor of proposals that would increase the ability of working parents to adjust their work schedules. He also endorsed flex time , which would let hourly employees work more some weeks than others, as long as they maintained an average level over time. So in a particularly busy week at home, a full-time waitress could work five hours fewer than usual and then make up the time the following week. We should give hourly workers the same opportunities that salaried professionals have to arrange their schedules around family needs. Edited excerpts of his remarks follow.
Television is consumed in vast quantities.
Consumer use of the Internet and online services, while growing, remains very small compared with the use of television. Television is cheap, undemanding, convenient. It is suited to viewing in disconnected and fretful bouts and with frequent interruptions. It may be habit-forming. An important factor in consumer demand for television is a desire for passive entertainment.