Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poland, 20 in Hungary and 5 in Austria. Along the snowbound, 170-mile highway linking Budapest with Vienna, more than 130 cars were immobilized for up to 18 hours until Soviet, Hungarian and Austrian tanks dug them out. One of the liberated motorists was Austria's Ambassador to Hungary, Arthur Agstner. Declared the grateful diplomat: "If the Soviet tanks had not arrived in time, several of us could have frozen to death...
...long run. Merck & Co., a New Jersey-based drug firm, grants an average of six weeks of paid pregnancy leave and an additional six months of unpaid personal leave if desired. "You can't close your eyes to the fact that the work force has totally changed," says Arthur Strohmer Jr., the company's executive director of human resources. "Increasingly, entrants are women of childbearing age and working mothers. You have to make some adaptations to that pool of talent if only to stay in business." The benefits to the company, Strohmer says, are long term: "We get to keep...
Actually, he is not as curmudgeonly as this byplay suggests. In Connecticut, Roth and Bloom regularly see such neighboring friends as Arthur Miller, Richard Widmark and William Styron; London, her turf, involves plenty of evenings with theater and literary people, including Harold Pinter and Lady Antonia Fraser...
...Nigel Holmes (Executive Director); Dorothy D. Chapman, Anthony J. Libardi, Irene Ramp (Deputies); Arthur Hochstein, Renee Klein, Leonard S. Levine, Billy Powers, Barbara Wilhelm (Assistant Directors); Carol March (Designer); Nickolas Kalamaras Layout: Steve Conley (Chief); John P. Dowd (Deputy); Angel Ackemyer, Stefano Arata, Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, James Elsis, Jay Petrow, Nomi Silverman, Kenneth Smith, Eugene Tick Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells...
...permitted, in what form should it survive? Fearing that conception, the most intimate of functions, might become one more branch of private enterprise, some experts want surrogacy to be conducted like adoption, mostly through nonprofit agencies. "I do not think people should be gestating babies for money," says Arthur Caplan, director of the Bio-Medical Ethics Center at the University of Minnesota. "Entrepreneurs who come into the business are not being screened...