Word: baruchism
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...company drew the most fire for what neighbors said was its unwillingness to explain exactly what chemicals were in the dump. "I just want to see some facts. I want to see results that show that it's safe to start digging," said Toxic Alert Coalition member Wendy L. Baruch...
...fall of the Eppinger Prize came as a shock to past recipients of the award, a number of whom are Jewish. "If someone had told me that the award honored a man who had this past, I would not have accepted it," says former Prizewinner Baruch Blumberg of Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. But little was said about Eppinger, according to Blumberg, when he was awarded his prize in 1973. Apparently, even less was asked. -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by James Graff/Freiburg and Laura López/ New York
...Soviet Union had wanted to ban all atomic weapons, and the U.S. had refused. Right, answered Reagan; that was when the Soviets did not have the bomb. But when Bernard Baruch proposed an international tribunal to govern nuclear weapons, it was the Soviets who balked...
...FIRST USE, a concept that finds its roots in the Baruch Plan of 1946, has received renewed consideration in the wake of a 1982 article in Foreign Affairs by four former top-ranking military planners, McGeorge Bundy, national security advisor to President John F. Kennedy '40; George F. Kennan, former ambassador to the Soviet Union; Robert S. McNamera, secretary of defense under Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson; and Gerard Smith, chief Salt I negotiator...
...Elbe River in April 1945 faded rapidly from American minds as the U.S.S.R. moved to consolidate its control over the countries of Eastern Europe that had been liberated by the Red Army. Coined in 1946 by Herbert Bayard Swope, a journalist and sometime speechwriter for Philanthropist Bernard Baruch, the term cold war became synonymous with the tensions of the post-World War II era. During a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., in 1946, Winston Churchill provided another image for the new age. "From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic," he said, "an iron curtain...