Word: professional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The accounting profession saw the turmoil coming and tried to prepare. Peat Marwick Main, a Big Eight firm, ran week-long seminars during 1987 for its 3,900 staffers. Yet even the experts are often stymied. One reason is that many rules remain up in the air. Congress is long...
In return, Whittle is asking doctors to pay an annual fee, probably between $100 and $200. It is not at all clear that doctors are interested. One large publishing company has begun sampling the profession, and is so far finding minimal interest in Whittle's scheme. As for the advertisers...
...professionals know better. The Dallas-to-Chicago run loses its luster after the 100th trip. Romance is worn down by long days and lousy food. The course books don't talk about maneuvering Manhattan in a snowstorm. "They'll % soon find out," smiles a young instructor. "Drove ten years, truckin' got both my wives." Truck-company reps, roaming the halls to recruit talent, mince no words about the tough life. "Glory goes out the window when you're pounding 5,000 miles a week," says an old-timer. "Trucking used to be an honorable profession too. Now a lady...
Alarmed by gathering signs of a health-care disaster, Secretary of Health and Human Services Otis Bowen recently convened a special commission in Washington to find ways to revitalize the nursing profession. Almost simultaneously, retired Admiral James Watkins, the chairman of the presidential AIDS panel, called for federal programs to...
One of the proposals, the Visual Artists Rights Bill, would also provide a 7% resale royalty on some art works fetching $1,000 or more. In this age of the $53.9 million Van Gogh, that would allow artists whose works increase in value -- always just a fraction of the profession...