Word: professional
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Within his profession, Hall, 58, is a revered, almost legendary figure, esteemed both for the brilliance of his productions and for his odds-defying, inspirational leadership, but to most of the theatergoing public he is unknown. He chose, in the early stages of a promising career, to abandon commercial theater...
"The profession has been going through the kind of changes that have already gone on in economics. It has been a transition in the quantitative direction," says David S. Landes, Coolidge Professor of History and Professor of Economics.
With the sort of single voice that is rarely heard in their contentious profession, representatives of the nation's lawyers last week put themselves on a collision course with the nation's doctors. The issue is medical malpractice, and that is about all that the combatants agree on. Convinced of...
Inside the Gdansk courtroom, the judge began trial proceedings last week with a few routine questions. He asked the defendant's profession (electromechanic); his salary ($85 a month); and if he had any decorations. He did, including the Nobel Prize for Peace, and he had once been the leader of...
Regardless, the physicians do have something pertinent to say: namely, that malpractice suits have gotten out of hand, and that the medical insurance system needs to be fundamentally altered in order to preserve both the prerogatives and the services of the profession.