Word: journalism
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...between 1942 and 1945. Waldheim admitted that he had not left the army in 1941, as he had previously implied, but professed ignorance of any systematic extermination of Yugoslav partisans or the removal of Greek Jews to death camps. Last week, at the National Archives in Washington, an army journal was unearthed in which Waldheim had actually noted orders from the German High Command to eliminate partisans. Yet the more international outrage mounted, the more Austrians defiantly rallied behind their native son. That sent him ahead of Steyrer in the polls...
...math and the laws of probability. When he took the civil service exams that led to his first job in the India Office in 1906, his lowest score was in economics. Even after he returned to Cambridge as a don and took to editing the Economic Journal, he was most comfortable among the aesthetes of Bloomsbury. Philosopher Bertrand Russell once referred to Keynes' intellect as "the sharpest and clearest that I have ever known...
Because so many of the acquisitions are taking place among the largest agencies, a top tier is developing of superheavyweights that are several times as large as most other companies in the industry. Rankings in Advertis- ing Age, a leading trade journal, show that the ten largest U.S. agencies controlled about $27 billion in advertising billings last year. That is nearly 17% of the $162 billion that was spent on ads around the world. The leader was New York City-based Young & Rubicam, with 1985 billings of $3.57 billion, followed by the Ogilvy Group ($3.3 billion), Ted Bates Worldwide...
...other American fellows are: Charles Alson of the Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record, Douglas Cumming of The Providence (R.I.) Journal, Michael Davis of The (Baltimore) Evening Sun, Susan Dentzer of Newsweek Magazine, Valerie Hyman of WSMV-TV in Nashville, Nancy Lee of The New York Times, Martha Matzke of Education Week, Michael Meyers of The Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Charles Powers of The Los Angeles Times, and Ira Rosen of the CBS program "60 Minutes...
...publications include The Buxheim Organ Book (1963), Anonymous Pieces in the Manuscript El Escorial (1981), The Music of Black Americans: A History (2nd ed. 1983), and Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (1982). She is also the co-founder and editor, with her husband, of the journal "The Black Perspective in Music," which boasts a 1000-person circulation reaching scholars from America to China to Africa...