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Still, in the words of a longtime staff member, there's a "palpable tension" in the CBS newsroom. From the executive suites to the cafeteria lines, the conversation at CBS News is about what to do with Connie and Dan. Dump her, keep him? Dump him, keep her? Dump them both and bring in Ed Bradley from 60 Minutes? The talk spilled over to Don Imus' nationally syndicated radio show two weeks ago, when professional curmudgeon Andy Rooney called the Rather-Chung teaming "the worst network-news mistake since ABC paired Barbara Walters with Harry Reasoner...
Close watchers of Seagram thought Bronfman got too little for his Du Pont stake. Says Ken Shea, an analyst at Standard & Poor's: "It doesn't make sense to dump a solid business like Du Pont, which throws off good dividends, and take on a much riskier investment in MCA. But then the press accounts of Edgar Jr. don't give him a lot of credit. They paint him as a Dan Quayle who is ready to wreck Seagram...
...move by young G.O.P. conservatives to dump Oregon's Mark Hatfield from the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee fizzled in a closed-door party caucus. The conservatives were angry at Hatfield, who voted against the balanced-budget amendment--the lone Republican holdout...
...most of these publications, the motive is strictly commercial. Publishers -- sometimes with little or no consultation with their editorial counterparts -- just set up shop and dump the contents of their titles into a file and send it off. The entry fee is relatively low: setting up a site on the World Wide Web can cost as little as $5,000 -- a pittance compared with the cost of a printing plant. In addition, existing online services pay publications for the right to post their journalists' prepaid contents, and some publications charge for access directly. Many online users are happy to surf...
...then that the EPA mandated that the village lay new pipes, erect a sewage-treatment plant, close the dump and build an incinerator. While the EPA eventually footed $18 million of the initial $32 million expense of the treatment plant, the village was forced to raise utility bills to pay the rest, and the costs associated with the improvements continue to climb. That helped bring Key West's cost of living to the highest level in the state, forcing many "conches"-native Key Westers-to move away. Even so, John Jones, the village engineer, admits "it was something the city...