Ratcheting up the stakes in a pitched battle with the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission through media consolidation antitrust issues.

Ratcheting up the stakes in a pitched battle with the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission through media consolidation antitrust issues, Sen Fritz Hollings, D-SC hinted he'd like FTC Chairman Tim Muris to be levy out of commission.

``I am trying to eliminate him,'' Sen Hollings told Advertising Age last week, acknowledging that he is refusing to encounter with Mr. Muris and may prompt to cut the FTC's bag if Mr. Muris remains and doesn't overturn course.

Andy Davis, an aide to the senator, later described the exposition as borne of the senator's ``frustration'' with