Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The news is not all bad, however. Some graduate-school administrators believe the decline in students has begun to stabilize. Says Gwynne Blakemore Evans, Harvard English professor emeritus: "People now enter this profession with their eyes very much open. They know the job situation, so they are perhaps a more...
Economists might dismiss the President's remedy as frivolous, but their own prescriptions have not helped much either. Faced with a grinding recession that has driven the unemployment rate to 10.8% of the work force, the economics profession has dissolved into a babel of conflicting voices. Result: as the...
Even in a profession marked by dedication, Levine's obsession with music is pronounced. "His life consists only of conducting," says one assistant conductor at the Met. "He is a conductor, and that is what he is." He is not interested in sports, and he is unconcerned with religion...
The Met was always a big organization, but during Bliss's eight-year stewardship it has become a much bigger one, the General Motors of the world's opera companies. A Wall Street lawyer by profession, with close connections to moneyed New York society, Bliss has brought the...
Cohn was charged with one count of grand theft, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. "He infiltrated Pan Am," explained Detective William Sayers. "He made a good impression. He knew the language of the profession. He served meals and drinks and fluffed pillows." Despite an obvious...