Word: gertner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...courtroom, even "slight innuendos made me feel illegitimate--like I didn't belong there," said Gertner...
...Nancy Gertner, a partner in a private Boston law firm, said that the gender bias report's findings confirmed what she had known from personal experience in the state's court system...
...clear." Many parents have been pressuring doctors to try hormone therapy on children who are not abnormally short. One physician recalls a father who asked if his tall son could be made even taller so he would be sure to make the Notre Dame football team. Says Dr. Joseph Gertner, program director of the Pediatric Clinical Research Center at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center: "As people realize that they have control over certain aspects of their appearance, as with orthodontia, nose jobs and breast jobs, those people concerned about stature will want to have therapy...
...pressures fuel the desire to reach a greater height. Study after study has found that taller people achieve more success in business and have an easier time socially. Aware of this research, an author of how-to-succeed- in-business books who wanted his son to be taller asked Gertner for help. Argued the author: "I'd rather my son be 5 ft. 10 and a graduate of N.Y.U.'s business school than 5 ft. 6 and a Harvard Business School graduate. These extra 4 in. in height make much more difference in terms of success in a business career...