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...outcry. New CBS Chief Executive Officer Laurence Tisch roiled staff emotions further when he tried to shift responsibility for the layoffs to News President Howard Stringer. "I never said to Howard, 'We have to cut the budget at the news division,' " he told the New York Times. Stringer was aghast. After a two-hour meeting between the two, Tisch, who had suggested cutting the news budget by up to $60 million, issued a memo admitting that Stringer proposed the cuts only as an alternative to bringing in an outside consultant...
...Times called attention to two stories--one from Washington, one from Moscow--that tried to do just that. Of course, the usual suspects were rounded up and asked to comment. And, also of course, the usual right-wing kooks--some of whom unfortunately happen to hold Senate seats--were aghast...
Kelly McBride looked aghast when her shot with eight minutes left in the first half landed in UMass goalie Ann Scileppi's stomach and not in the back...
...home by some undiplomatic behavior at a diplomatic do. As a party honoring Vice President George Bush was getting under way at the Canadian embassy, Sondra Gotlieb, the Ambassador's wife, slapped her social secretary, Connie Connor. A dozen guests and members of the Canadian press corps looked on aghast. Washington was stunned by the uncharacteristic gaffe; the Gotliebs are considered one of the most popular and able diplomatic couples in the U.S. capital. The slap was apparently the result of tension over an important guest who did not arrive and of Sondra Gotlieb's belief that Connor...
...opened the splashy, 5,000-seat Cathedral of Tomorrow, the first church designed to be a TV studio. In 1955, at Humbard's urging, Oral Roberts began telecasting weekly films of himself placing healing hands upon lines of supplicants in sweat-drenched tent revivals. The nation was thrilled, or aghast, to watch hard-core Pentecostalism in the living room. Roberts, a Bible college dropout, was able to fold the tent and open his university off the proceeds...