Word: helping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union's top nuclear scientist, cut off from all normal social contacts and followed at all times by a bodyguard. A theoretical physicist ranking with America's J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller, he was the youngest person ever elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. After he helped develop the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, he became one of the country's most decorated men. But he remained unknown because his honors were bestowed in secret. In those years, Sakharov believed he had a useful function: "When I began working on this terrible weapon...
...normally cautious Bush take such a risk? The President and his aides feared that China was slipping into a mood of angry isolation that would be no help for world stability. Bush, who lived in Beijing as U.S. envoy for 13 months in 1974 and '75, fancies himself an old China hand. He seems to rate preserving the carefully nurtured U.S. strategic relationship with China well above human-rights considerations, which he has always valued below the need for order and stability in world affairs. When former President Richard Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger returned from exploratory...
...HELP WANTED: Head of network programming. Experience in creating hit shows and rejiggering prime-time schedules preferred. Must be willing to work long hours in an almost hopeless cause...
...Winter Olympics -- though for sums that have been criticized as exorbitant. Some industry watchers contend that CBS, under president Laurence Tisch, is flailing for direction. But Broadcast Group chief Howard Stringer insists that the big sporting events, along with a push for more adventurous programming, will help recapture an audience that has grown rather jaded. "You cannot anymore launch shows that simply repeat yesterday's viewing patterns," says Stringer. "That's something we learned the hard way this year." Any other lessons will have to be learned quickly by Sagansky, the man about to fill the toughest job in network...
...give some quick help for tobacco addiction...