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...News president in 1977, Roone Arledge proposed that the network's struggling evening newscast be switched to 10:30. (The idea didn't fly, and Arledge created Nightline instead.) Former NBC News president Lawrence Grossman recalls that in 1990, after leaving NBC, he suggested to CBS chairman Laurence Tisch that the network should move its evening news to 10 o'clock, where it would get a bigger audience. (Tisch listened, but nothing came of it.) "There has to be some change in the structure we now have," says former CBS News president Van Gordon Sauter, "where three evening-news shows...
...Lucas, Robert McNamara, Norman Mailer, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Morris, Toni Morrison, Ralph Nader, Mike Nichols, Edward James Olmos, Jane Pauley, Dan Rather, Donna Rice, Leni Riefenstahl, Molly Ringwald, Mickey Rooney, Mort Sahl, Diane Sawyer, Claudia Schiffer, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Sargent Shriver, Steven Spielberg, Kerri Strug, Cheryl Tiegs, Laurence Tisch, Donald Trump, Peter Ueberroth, Paul Volcker, Andrew Weil, Raquel Welch and William Westmoreland...
...Perfect worlds don't last forever, and Buffett knows that," Leeb says. What Buffett doesn't know is how, or when, this one will unravel. But he's not alone in planning for problems. Some other high-profile investors, including Loews Corp. chairman Lawrence Tisch and international investor George Soros, have big stakes in metals-mining operations. And Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has been talking about either inflation or deflation at various times in the past few months. Either one could knock the stock market for a loop, and Buffett's highfliers probably would be among the hardest...
...Bloodshot Eye gets back on the gridiron. Sure, it's pricey, but look at the alternative: Tisch...
...network, to a great extent, has only itself to blame. While its broadcast rivals were busily getting into the cable business (ABC with ESPN; NBC with CNBC and America's Talking; Fox with FX and the Fox News Channel), CBS sat on its hands--or rather, on chairman Laurence Tisch's tight fists. That finally changed in 1995, when the company was sold to Westinghouse, which already owned a piece of one cable channel, CMT: Country Music Television; marketed another, TNN: The Nashville Network; and wanted more...