Word: schweitzer
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...independent stations. The erosion was quickened by the writers' strike last year, which delayed the fall season and neutralized kickoff-week hoopla. "We're trying to find much more aggressive and interesting ways to wave to people, to grab them and interest them in our programs," says George Schweitzer, senior vice president of communications for third-place CBS, which increased its advertising budget by 25% this year...
Some serve out of a sense of moral mission, much like that which inspired Dr. Albert Schweitzer to go to Africa in 1913 to open a hospital at the village of Lambarene in what is now Gabon. Others seek adventure, challenge, an opportunity to hone their skills in a real-life laboratory where nearly every case is an emergency. Many discover that much of what they learned in medical school is irrelevant to the life-and-death crises and health needs of the world's poor, and go on to make a career of volunteer medicine...
Schlesinger Jr., a former Harvard professor and currently Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at the City University of New York, said that some social historians "disdain readaability...
Mark Metcalf, 35, of Berkeley, Calif., endured weeks of pain that "felt like I had a hot iron held against the side of my neck," and he found himself "considering suicide as a rational alternative." Every year a number of the chronically suffering make that choice. Pain, said Albert Schweitzer, "is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself...
...expected to play an important political role in the years to come. Congress thankfully blocked the arms sales, but the blunders continued. Embassy officials criticized human rights workers, explaining that a Peronist victory would best serve American interests. In November, just one month after Alfonsin's election, Robert Schweitzer, an official with the Inter-American Defense Board, slipped into Argentina to meet with top military officials, without telling the new leaders. This enraged Alfonsin--and rightly so--enough that the United States lifted the arms ban, for lack of anything better to do. But the move was too late...