Word: cbs
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While Clinton was prepping Wednesday for an interview for the CBS Evening News, one of his advisers asked how the President would respond to a question about the political fallout from his refusal to cave in to G.O.P. demands. Summoning an answer he'd used on Gingrich days earlier in private, Clinton responded, "I don't care if my approval ratings drop all the way down to 5%; it's the right thing to do." Gore then piped up, "Why 5%? Why don't you say, 'All the way down to zero'?" Clinton joked in reply, "Well...
...teaches high school in Louisville, Kentucky. Between December 1988 and March 1993, Wigand worked at Brown & Williamson as a $300,000-a-year vice president whose work focused partly on attempts by B&W to develop nontoxic and fire-retardant cigarettes--a project that Wigand reportedly told CBS it never pursued in earnest...
...Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of Westinghouse Inc. and CBS, creating the nation's largest broadcaster. "The merger helps CBS because it gives them a large number of new affiliates, which should bolster them as a network" says senior media writer Richard Zoglin. (Westinghouse/CBS owns 16 TV stations reaching 32 percent of the country, and 39 radio stations.) "It doesn't help them in terms of broad-based communications," Zoglin adds, "because Westinghouse, like CBS, doesn't have extensive cable holdings. Westinghouse is a long-established corporation with a reputation for tightfisted management, which could mean some job layoffs...
...anywhere near his turf. The gruff correspondent has been incensed by comments about himself and 60 Minutes in a new memoir by former White House flack MARLIN FITZWATER. Last week he learned that Fitzwater was preparing to tape an episode of Politically Incorrect in a leased cbs studio. After haranguing Fitzwater on the phone, Wallace turned up in person and, generously sprinkling his speech with obscenities, demanded a public apology. Fitzwater refused. And after Wallace finally left, Fitzwater left too, saying he was too flustered to go on with the show. "I was dumbfounded," says Fitzwater. "I didn't think...
Newt Gingrich says that he has virtually decided not to challenge Bob Dole for the Republican nomination for president. Gingrich told CBS this morning that it is "very, very unlikely" that he will run. "It just wasn't in the cards for Gingrich," says political correspondent Michael Kramer. "He probably made the right political decision. Gingrich has real problems with polarizing voters. The budget impasse might have something to do with deciding not to run, but the main reason is that he doesn't want to give up the power of the Speakership to pursue an ephemeral goal that might...