Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Annecy was the eleventh French casino to be raided and the seventh to be closed in the past two years. Police are seeking to halt a croupier crime wave that has robbed French gambling palaces of uncounted millions and besmirched France's longtime reputation for honest dealing at the...
For the nearly 2.5 million people who take standardized tests each year, scribbling in answers in number-two pencil on a computerized answer sheet plays a significant role in shaping their futures. It helps allow them to continue their studies or to enter a profession--such as law--in which...
Such results naturally arouse suspicions that lawyers are trying to keep competition in their lucrative field to a minimum. By any measure, the profession's growth has been swift: there are almost 500,000 attorneys in the U.S. today, up from 355,000 a decade ago. In 1978 alone...
"The added effort and inconvenience required of the CIA to carry out its mission should be an acceptable price to pay in order to preserve the integrity of the academic profession, the independence of our educational institutions, and the atmosphere of openness and trust essential to free inquiry and learning...
"We've bought everything we could get our hands on-buy it now and pay it back later with cheaper dollars." So says Walter Salvi, 36, a Boston public relations man. Like millions of other inflation-savvy consumers, Salvi, his wife and three children have caused wonder and befuddlement...