Word: professional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The most popular profession was in health care, with 15 percent--the same proportion planning to enter medicine in 1944. The second most popular was the law, which includes 11 percent of the poll's respondents.
That was Montgomery's style: colorful and quotable but imprecise. His penchant for old sweaters and big berets helped foster a folksy image that made him popular with his troops and the public. Behind the image, however, he was a thoroughly professional soldier who paid attention to almost nothing but his profession, living and eating alone in a trailer in the midst of his army. With an ego nearly as large as General Douglas MacArthur's, he was good at public relations but bad at human relations...
It was Nirvana's unexpected stardom that seemed to eat at him. He appeared unusually tortured by success, even in a profession famous for containing people who are tortured by success. "He was a very bright, sweet, generous and caring individual, perhaps a little too sweet and sensitive for the...
Although I applaud Dean Epps for his proposal to decrease tension between police and students, I don't think he is considering the real problem. It's not that the police officers do not know proper procedure for making an arrest; after all, it's their profession. They are obviously...
"I have seen a steep drop in the standards of the profession," Oliphant said. "Writing about things like political strategy has today crowded the serious substantive White House journalism out of journalism."