Word: expert
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American doctors write about 900 million prescriptions every year, and the vast majority of physicians are supremely confident that what they write is right. But is it? Last week an expert task force told the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare that too many doctors know far too little about drugs. While few of the doctors "seem inclined to voice any question of their competency in this field," the study group concluded, "lack of knowledge and sophistication in the proper use of drugs is perhaps the greatest deficiency of the average physician today...
...Expert's Code. Nonetheless, his two months' service should be invaluable to Humphrey. The Vice President's campaign was a shambles before O'Brien took control. Among other things, he persuaded Humphrey to release any delegates bound to him by the unit rule, a gesture that cost him only an estimated 40-50 delegate votes but earned him considerable good will. O'Brien is the only major Democratic figure who has direct and cordial relations with all segments of the party-the partisans of Kennedy, Humphrey, Johnson and McCarthy...
Talking Wildly. Until that outburst, which made even the "old Nixon" sound moderate, Agnew had been a model of circumspection. Painstakingly coached by expert Nixon aides, he showed careful, frequently thoughtful preparation in his formal speeches. Speaking on his own, though, he hit an entirely different tone. Besides talking wildly of the Communist menace, he argued against "appeasement of militant minorities in the ghettos." Entering the Fortas controversy for the first time, he took the remarkable line that Earl Warren, "a very competent Chief Justice," was responsible for the whole fuss. By retiring "precipitately," Agnew said, Warren...
...until The Adoration was cleaned in 1937 did Duveen find an expert, August Mayer, who identified it as a genuine Giorgione. The reddish tints, a peculiar softness, the rendering of the grass and small figures in the middle ground, Mayer declared, were all typical of the master's hand. With that, Samuel H. Kress bought the painting. Was Berenson wrong? Perhaps. In later years, even he grudgingly admitted that the painting had been done "in part" by Giorgione. But he refused to yield on his main point that "it was probably finished by Titian...
...jumping raises obvious questions, especially when competitors are involved. Though the practice is far from new, it is on a decided increase at the highest management levels. Michigan State University Professor Eugene E. Jennings, an expert on executive mobility, estimates that, apart from family-dominated companies, one-fifth of today's corporate presidents have been with their present firms for less than three years. Last year New England Mutual Life Insurance hired Abram T. Collier away from John Hancock as its new president. Gillette lost Stuart Hensley, now chairman of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical. Wayne Hoffman quit New York Central...