Word: professional
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Most of all, young workers want job gratification. Teaching, long disdained as an underpaid and underappreciated profession, is a hot prospect. Enrollment in U.S. teaching programs increased 61% from 1985 to 1989. And more graduates are expressing interest in public-service careers. "The glory days of Wall Street represented an...
At the heart of Presumed Innocent is a murder trial, its intricate arabesques portrayed in breathtaking detail, in which the defendant is almost -- almost -- certainly not the guilty party. The Burden of Proof offers a hero, Alejandro ("Sandy") Stern, the brilliant attorney who defended the accused narrator of Presumed Innocent...
If Turow were simply a well-to-do attorney who dabbled in literature, he would almost certainly be hovering still in the ranks of the unheralded and unsung. He regards himself as an unlikely candidate for the rewards he has received: "I don't think anybody betting would have bet...
Finally, Gorbachev does not share Bush's conviction about the importance of personal relationships in foreign affairs. The Soviet President's policy is not immune to the influence of likes and dislikes -- far from it. The deadlock between Moscow and Vilnius has been worsened by Gorbachev's distaste for Lithuanian...
The federal government has encouraged this free-market approach to medicine, Relman said. In 1975, the Supreme Court declared antitrust laws applicable to the medical profession, encouraging competition among physicians, he said.