Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dining hall system is operated by a staff whose members, in most cases, have worked their way to the top after many years' service, and the investigation of their methods by an outside efficiency expert would obviously not be hailed with joy. However, such an investigation should not be considered as deprecatory to their considerable achievements. It should be realized that most of them have been trained in the pre-war system of individual waitress service, and the present cafeteria system is completely different. It is a system for which they were not trained, and consequently the change...
...Pollster Gallup was an up-&coming expert at finding out who read what kind of toothpaste ads and why. One day he said to himself: "If it works for toothpaste, why not for politics...
...specialists in the 15 recognized fields. The inbred, backward-looking boards, he said, give examinations that try to find out whether a candidate knows what the examiners know, not what the candidate himself knows; they stifle medical progress by "withholding approval of the new by insistent emphasis on expert knowledge of the old"; they become "partners of static and reactionary, albeit powerful and respectable, inertia or ignorance." Dr. Gregg's suggestion: pick specialists by their competence in practice...
What to do about it? Childbirth must be made safer at home through more nurse-midwives who can work with doctors and recognize quickly any sign of abnormality that requires an expert obstetrician. Hospitals must be redesigned to remove "the redolence of pathology" found in present maternity wards; doctors must be trained to care for the emotional well-being of mothers, babies-and fathers...
Plans for the newly-created Russian Research Center moved ahead last night as the University appointed an expert on Soviet law to a position on the Center's staff...