Word: generalistic
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DIED. BRENDAN GILL, 83, urbane man of letters; in the city he campaigned to preserve, New York. A generalist of wide-ranging talents, Gill began and ended his career at the New Yorker, alternating as a columnist and critic--of architecture and just about everything else. He wrote poetry, novels (The Trouble of One House), plays (La Belle), biographies (of Cole Porter and Frank Lloyd Wright) and even a best seller: Here at "The New Yorker...
...area of expertise is labor and employment law. She has served as associate vice president for human resources at Harvard and as a staff attorney for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), but in recent years she has become a "generalist" in handling a variety of controversies both internal and external to the University...
Schrader graduated from Cornell in 1974 and eventually helped run the university's supercomputer center. "I'm not a scientist," he says. "I'm a generalist and a manager of complex scientific organisms that many people don't understand. I'm never responsible for the science, because I don't know enough. I'm not a computer geek; I'm a manager and a business person." The job at Cornell led him to explore links with other computers and, eventually, the Internet. In 1990 he formed his own company, which later became PSINet...
...goal has always been to pick people who are generalists," says Slichter. "He does bring, of course, specific business experience and experience as a manager.... But I would say the most important thing he brings is personal qualities and a mind which enables him to be a generalist...
...what is clearly the most violent cultural wrench for UCLA is its decision to train fewer specialists and more medical generalists. Late last year, an audience of UCLA specialists listened in shocked silence as Alan Fogelman, chairman of the School of Medicine, outlined a vision of the future: "A tertiary cardiology specialist will be waiting for the phone to ring, but it won't." While it still emphasizes training medical scientists and, in fact, has a new program to attract top-notch students who will commit themselves to research but not practice, UCLA will no longer train students to practice...