Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Torpid Crawl. That was as far as he got. At the A.B.A.'s 99th annual meeting in Atlanta last week, Spann won by a lopsided 260-to-59 vote in the governing House of Delegates.* But the Jeffers insurgency was a signal that recent efforts to move the A.B.A...
He is just 40, a millionaire, world-renowned and, at the peak of his profession, a confident and gracious man. He is pale, despite the Sahara sun, but seemingly healthy. His life with Pierre Berge, his business partner and intimate of 15 years, has probably been as harmonious as most...
There were 3,500 medical practitioners in the colonies when the Revolution began, of whom fewer than 200 held degrees from medical schools. One writer noted that "with a few, honorable exceptions in each city, the practitioners were ignorant, degraded and contemptible." Quacks abounded. In the North, ministers and magistrates...
The institutionalization of a loosely organized profession grew with the founding of state medical societies, teaching hospitals and medical schools. Largely because of the devastation caused by infectious diseases, local communities were forced to form boards of health, which established quarantine measures and tried to provide for sanitary engineering. Infectious...
There was no doubt from the beginning of Rockefeller's career in 1958 as to his final goal. As he himself put it before the '64 campaign, "I'm a politician. That is my profession. Success in politics, real success, means only one thing in America." The prevalent wisdom in...