By giving the nudge to one of the news division's founding fathers, CBS could risk an ugly, public rift with a broadcast legend.

The long-simmering tension boiled over into a public rift with the 2000 presidential elections.

That would confront NATO with the choice between further concessions or a public rift with Moscow.

Early this year, Mr. Corzine lost his executive position at Goldman in a board room coup, a rare public rift at the tight-knit firm.

The disagreement between the president and vice president would cause a very public rift.

The attempt to embrace more moderate policies has divided the neo-Fascists, possibly foreshadowing a public rift.

Nonetheless the federal and Newfoundland Conservatives generally got along well until the equalization issue, so the ABC campaign represented an unusual public rift.

In a surprisingly public rift within the government, the State Environmental Protection Agency, the country's leading environmental agency, announced its opposition to the project.

The public rift was subsequently healed.

Goulart pardoned the sailors shortly after, creating a public rift with the military.