Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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All in all, it might have been a blissful, tax-deductible working vacation -if only so many of the speakers had not kept repeating that the legal profession is in a bit of a jam. Washington Attorney Charles Rhyne, also a former A.B.A. president, pronounced the meeting "a panorama of...
Appearing every year in five gigantic tan volumes of more than 3,000 pages each, and selling for a handsome price of $85, the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory is to the legal profession a combination of Who's Who and Standard & Poor's, with perhaps a touch of...
Boos. "Composers," says Fromm, "are the sources of musical culture; yet their status in the musical world is uncertain. They are professionals without a profession." Fromm's efforts to offset this situation begin rather than end with his individual commissions ($1,000 for a piece by a young unknown, up to $5,000 for one by an established master). He befriends his composers-most often while they are still obscure -keeps in touch with them, sells wine to them. He makes sure that their works get performed and even subsidizes recordings. "There can be no living musical atmosphere...
Ralph Nader called the report "a rebuke to the legal profession, which has failed in its educational and public service functions." Early this summer Nader awarded the Study Group a $9500 grant from his Public Service Fund to continue its efforts.
The Bryman School, headquartered in West Los Angeles, trains medical assistants at 14 locations across the country. Students are assigned only one book: a fat loose-leaf notebook that is supposed to contain all the knowledge the profession requires. As techniques change, new pages are inserted. Says President John Krebs...