Word: alberts
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...your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan, Albert Schweitzer said--which raises a question for our times: What do we lose if Sunday becomes just like any other day? Lawmakers in Virginia got to spend part of their summer break debating that question, thanks to a mistake they made last winter when they inadvertently revived a "day of rest" rule; hotels and hospitals and nuclear power plants would have had to give workers a weekend day off or be fined $500. After a special legislative session was convened to fix the error, Virginia's workers, like the rest...
...Albert R. Wynn of Maryland explained that achieving equality was not just “about civil rights but also economic rights” and called for the creation of more jobs for blacks...
...DIED. ALBERT CASEY, 84, former American Airlines CEO; in Dallas. After working in the railroad industry and as head of the Times Mirror media company, he took over American in 1974, when airlines faced deregulation, climbing debt and higher fuel prices. When he left the company 10 years later, annual profits stood at $228 million...
...more than 35 years, MARV ALBERT has been the voice of the New York Knicks. Last week he said he was quitting his job as play-by-play man for the Madison Square Garden Network. His bosses were reportedly displeased with paying him $2 million a year for frank and often, ahem, biting commentary on an ailing team. The network characterizes the parting as amicable, but according to Albert's agent and longtime friend, Evan Bell, "[Marv is] sorry to leave. He loves the Knicks. He loves the Garden. He was put in a position where his journalistic integrity...
Beyond the emotional turmoil, there was a physical burden. Sigmond, a former director of the Albert Einstein Medical Center, owned a three-bedroom apartment that housed more than 80 cartons of books and stacks of professional papers. Downsizing to a smaller place meant days of sifting, sorting and lugging--more than he was willing to handle. So he didn't. Instead he called on moving solutions in Wynnewood, Pa., a senior-move management company, one of the latest specialty support services for older adults...