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According to sources at CBS, the Evening News anchor chair was all but offered to Ed Bradley recently, and he all but refused. That's an extraordinary benchmark of the decline in stature of the evening news shows. From the season before Cronkite left through the season after, the network- news-watching majority withered abruptly, 77% to 68% in just two years, and not because of CNN, which barely existed. Instead, it was simply the moment the nation, released by Cronkite's passing and Reagan's ignorance-is-bliss- ism, started abandoning the nightly-news ritual. Today...
Aeneas venture capital investments performed well in fiscal 1992, earning a respectable return of 22.6 percent and slightly exceeding HMC's internal benchmark target of 20.7 percent for the year...
According to documents filed with the IRS, the company's Incentive Compensation Plan, implemented in fiscal 1991, "provides for incentive payouts based on the returns of specific asset classes managed by employees relative to a specified benchmark...
...Standard Maintenance Allowance is what a specific family supposedly needs to sustain itself. The benchmark family of four with one child in college is allowed $16,180 in living expenses. No adjustment is made for cities with higher living costs. James Belvin Jr., director of Duke University's undergraduate financial-aid office, has "seen it all" when it comes to families trying to wrangle more dollars from the school. "You have people listing more than $1,000 a month for food alone. There's the maid service, dog grooming, country-club fees, tennis and ballet lessons, you name...
Under Pyle's leadership, the Harvard Community Health Plan became one of the nation's most successful health maintenance organizations and is currently recognized as "a benchmark for the highest standards of quality," Rudenstine stated yesterday's press release...