Word: view
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...company's own backyard. When Aetna's new chairman, William H. Donaldson, approached the podium at the annual meeting of the Connecticut State Medical Society last month, he didn't expect a warm welcome. The audience was packed with his firm's sworn enemies, doctors who view the $26 billion-a-year health-care giant as the poster child for all that ails managed care, from draconian cost controls and reams of paperwork to heavy-handed negotiating tactics. Last fall the organization lobbied the state attorney general to investigate Aetna's allegedly abusive practices...
...already struck a deal with the Texas attorney general making similar concessions. Since taking over a few months ago from Richard Huber, the combative CEO who was forced out, Donaldson has been trying his best to mend the HMO giant's sickly relations with doctors and members, who view it as putting profits ahead of patients...
...Harrigan, 51, of Austin, Texas, asks a question that virtually any leading-edge boomer can relate to: "Where are we?" When Harrigan is sitting in a restaurant, visiting an office or just walking down the street, he wonders, Why does it always seem he's the oldest person in view...
CAROL BURNETT, actor, comedian: The way to take a pie in the face with style is to immediately grab the person and kiss them all over their face so they get it too. You're saying, "Thank you. I understand your point of view, and here is mine: Kiss your enemies...
...ends with the actual footage of the annihilation of Nagasaki by a U.S. atom bomb on Aug. 9, 1945. What makes the images so immediate, however, is the harrowing commentary from some of the 23 combat cameramen interviewed for the film. "I came to view these cameramen as they view other servicemen--as heroes of the quotidian," says Schickel. "They were guys doing their jobs without thought of glory or fame. They remain unassuming, often humorous, always realistic about their accomplishments...