Word: weser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Iranians' elaborate physical plans for the complex emphasize research facilities, Dr. Dieter Koch-weser, associate dean of the Medical School for international programs, has gone with representatives from the other two universities to Teheran this week to make sure the primary objective remains one of learning about health care in developing countries. To do this, Koch-weser says, he has to be sure more health care will be provided for the people, rather than the elite, of Iran...
...handful of others, has been trying since 1971 to elevate preventive medicine from its marginal importance at the Medical School. But his success has been limited. After a steady diet of Dr. Kildaire and Marcus Welby, Americans are conditioned to curative medicine. "It's natural," says Dr. Dieter Koch Weser, associative dean of the Faculty of Medicine and a close friend of Karefa-Smart. "Someone comes to you with a high fever, you give him antibiotics, and two days later, you have accomplished a minor miracle. It's dramatic. But if you walk into a village, line up 200 children...
...Commerzbank, one of Germany's Big Three, and for British Investment Banker Siegmund Warburg. After shifting into industry, he became a successful doctor of ailing companies. Vogelsang recruited him four years ago to take charge of Krupp's weakest branch, its money-losing shipbuilding subsidiary, A.G. Weser. Under Krackow's management, the number of man-hours needed to produce a supertanker was cut by one-third, and Weser swung round from a loss of $8.5 million in 1968 to a profit of $4.7 million...
...hopes to do better by making the company multinational. Says he: "I can conceive of opportunities for American partners to collaborate with Krupp in Europe in certain areas, using American know-how. Conversely, I can think of areas in America that could well be enriched with Krupp ideas." The Weser subsidiary, for instance, has been developing ice-breaking bulk carriers and tankers, and Krackow hopes to enter into joint ventures with U.S. and Canadian firms for the exploitation of the Arctic's huge oil and mineral deposits...
...Recent experiences of undergraduate medical students from Harvard who have had an opportunity to participate in study programs abroad." koch-Weser added, "have pointed up the significant value of such experiences to our students...