Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inflation accounting has been used successfully in Brazil, where inflation rates have been hovering around 40%. Holland's huge Philips Co. has been using replacement-cost accounting for more than 15 years. Shell Oil Co. offered its 1974 results in both "historical dollars" and "current dollars" adjusted for purchasing...
There it was, in a nutshell. Granted, not every art historian has been as nobly certain of the natural order as that unruffled Italian phallocrat; yet the fact remains that until quite recently, the work of women artists did not have a history. For several hundred years, women who painted...
Elwyn Brooks White was the son of a carpenter, and there are times when the father's profession marks his son's tongue-and-groove sentences. Hardly a word is ever out of place; his postcards can no more be excerpted than his essays. As these letters reveal...
...professor of mathematics told me; "Halsman, in a few months you can have your engineering degree and you want to become photographer!" But I had made up my mind I bought myself a photoflood lamp, a used enlarger and announced to all my friends that I had become a professional photographer...
Robert Scheer, who did the celebrated "adulterer in my heart" interview with Carter for Playboy, Robert Schrum, the speechwriter who quit the Carter campaign in a much publicized incident last spring, and Tom DeFrank, Newsweek's Ford campaign correspondent, all took turns immolating their chosen profession.