Word: professional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Raisa is rarely mentioned by name in the Soviet press. She was born in the Siberian town of Rubtsovsk in Altai Krai, though she told reporters at a parade in Moscow last month that she is "absolutely Russian." According to her official biography, her father was a railway engineer. Raisa...
Gary Hart has become the Democratic version of Richard Nixon: a political leader of vast talents and conspicuous flaws, a man who seems to draw strength from his own humiliation, and a natural loner in a profession that places a premium on warmth. Like Nixon, he is a fascinating touchstone...
"We take people who already have experience in the field," says Riddell, who won a Tony Award for outstanding lighting design in the Broadway production of William Hauptman's Big River. "It really is a very selective program, for people who have cut their track in the profession."
But with size and wealth have come some other characteristics of the business world: bottom-line thinking, firms that go bust as well as boom and charges of ethical misconduct. "Many lawyers say that law has always been a business," explains Stanford University Law Professor Robert Gordon. "Now it's...
Firms have dropped their inhibitions about pirating talent. "It's not unusual to receive a call offering a package of six partners from another firm with a promise of $10 million of business," says Chairman Alex Forger of Manhattan's Milbank, Tweed. Meanwhile, by publicizing balance sheets and pay scales...