Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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(5 of 13) that seniority systems are immune to suits under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act will probably not guarantee a Women's Legal Defense Fund testimonial. But her majority decision, handed down last Thursday, that an all-woman nursing school in Mississippi was guilty of sex...
The conduct of the press after Woodward and Bernstein could only help Nixon's side of the argument. Watergate beatified the press; it gave reporters a model and an ambition. It made them zealous, fierce to expose, hungry to bring back trophies. A certain bloodlust went through the profession...
But it would probably be even sillier if other businesses hired their employees the way Harvard does. A law firm would become the laughingstock of the profession if it tried to hire only the nation's most celebrated lawyers and judges who had proven themselves by becoming successful and established...
Lloyd Cutler, 64, former White House counsel, on the legal profession: "We have not convinced the public of our intellectual honesty. We are regarded as more canny than candid, more as servants of our prince, as mouthpieces or hired guns, than as servants of our consciences."
...publicists as flacks, yet scream when information isn't available. Whether editors like it or not, the press and the public relations profession are in a partnership. Only when newspapers build up their reporting staffs so that they can do the job alone will the need for the professional public relations person go away...