Word: schwebel
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...BANK OF COMMERCE A bank open before breakfast? It's the surest sign of a boom. Laredo banks are open 7 to 7 daily, including Sundays. Walk into the main office of the IBC and listen: English rarely spoken here. Upstairs in the executive offices, executive vice president Gerald Schwebel explains that his mother is Mexican, his father Austrian; he went to school in Nuevo Laredo. Bilingual, binational, he is the whole global economy in a suit. Schwebel's bank, the biggest in town with assets of more than $6 billion, has a small fleet of jets at the airport...
...partisan. Respected jurists from such U.S. allies as Britain, France, West Germany, Italy and Japan found in favor of Nicaragua. The sole dissenting voice on the crucial issue of Nicaragua's standing in the court came from the only American member of the panel, Reagan-appointed Judge Stephen Schwebel...
...WAKE of the 1961 Berlin Wall crisis, two psychologists, Sibylle Escalona and Milton Schwebel, conducted separate surveys among children aged 10 through 18. Though the surveys differed in size and methodology, they reported the same finding: a perceived fear about the possibility of nuclear war and the expectation among many children that the bomb is destined...
...children, the generation whose futures nukes are ostensibly threatening. As with their medical colleagues, they believe demonstating the damaging effects of the nuclear threat will serve to galvanize political actions against armaments. This line of research is not new--witness the studies in the early '60s by Escalona and Schwebel--but as with their colleagues, it experienced a resurgence in the late '70s along with the rise of a grassroots antinuclear movement...
SIXTH SINGLES--K. Schwebel (P) def. L. Miller...