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...latest and most furious ratings scramble among the networks began last March when CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite stepped down to make way for Dan Rather. Cronkite's Evening News had consistently attracted the most viewers for 14 years, with NBC a strong second, ABC a distant third. Suddenly, however, all bets were off. While a visibly uneasy Rather adjusted to his new role, viewers began to drift to other channels. The major gainer: ABC News, which, since Roone Arledge took over as president in 1977, has fashioned a slick, fast-paced style of reporting that bristles with the latest...
...Senator John Warner, 55, separated in December, and Burton and his wife Susan parted last year. But the seven-time-married Taylor and the four-time-married Burton scotched notions that another wedding might be in the offing. Said Burton: "We love each other with a passion so furious that we burn each other...
Since 1974, when District 65 first began fighting to unionize medical area workers. Harvard has battled back determinedly. There have been months of furious campaigning by both sides, days of hearings before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and two bitterly contested elections. But many of the original issues remain unresolved and both sides have developed a deeply entrenched distrust of the other...
...Emmy-winning reporter insisted on working up to her delivery date and reported two stories only hours before going into labor. In fact, the station's news director, James Thistle, had decided out of avuncular concern that Bradlee should avoid trips in the station's helicopter. Bradlee was furious and used the whirlybird until two weeks before her due date last January. After six weeks, she was back at work, balancing career and motherhood, and sharing child-care duties with a baby sitter and Husband Ben Bradlee Jr., a Boston Globe reporter. Later this year, Ben Sr., 60, married...
...Such furious activity helps distract prospective parents from one aspect of their condition: the expense. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, raising a child born in 1982 to the age of 18 will cost from $85,000 to $134,000 in an urban community. There are many additional options. Necessary living space may cost an initial $10,000 in the first year. Child care for a two-career family adds $6,000 to $10,000 a year, private school at least another $3,000 a year. State-college tuition in the year 2000 is projected...