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Logic argues that, sooner or later, player salaries have to eclipse revenues for small-market clubs. In the past decade, baseball salaries have escalated nearly as fast as inflation in Russia. The going rate to re-sign superstars who anchor a franchise (Kirby Puckett with the Minnesota Twins, Cal Ripken with the Orioles) has doubled in the past two years, from $3 million to $6 million a season. Up until now, most owners have managed to keep ahead of their exploding payrolls thanks to ever rising franchise values, a threefold leap in marketing revenues, a 25% jump in ball-park...
Partly as a result, a roster of contenders have deflected or flat-out declined overtures. According to present and former NBC top brass, they include: the network's own anchor Tom Brokaw, and its Washington bureau chief and Meet the Press host Tim Russert; ABC News president Roone Arledge, his executive vice president Paul Friedman and Nightline anchor Ted Koppel; CNN president Tom Johnson and executive vice president Ed Turner; and PBS documentarian Bill Moyers. There may be others. Although the search has been under way for at least a month -- since before Michael Gartner resigned -- somewhat less glittery prospects...
...example she sets is hard for others to emulate. She won't tell you this. But you just have to look in the team program. She's a two time All-Ivy selection, and potential All-American candidate. She's a three year starter and the anchor, the key, to this year's Harvard softball team...
...Christine has provided a lot of stability over her past three years. She has been the anchor to our staff...
...Stone Phillips delivered a stunning on-air apology for its report on the safety of GM trucks, which showed a pickup catching fire in a test crash but did not reveal that incendiary devices had been attached to the vehicle to help ensure a blaze. A week later, anchor Tom Brokaw expressed his regrets for several aspects of a Nightly News report about environmental abuses on an Idaho river. It featured footage of "dead" fish -- but the supposedly deceased denizens of the deep were only stunned as part of an experiment. Clearly, someone's head was due to roll...