Word: professionalizing
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DIED. PAUL "RED" ADAIR, 89, heroic oil-well firefighter immortalized by John Wayne in the 1968 movie The Hellfighters; in Houston, Texas. Adair began his career putting out oil-well fires during the Great Depression, and as his expertise grew, his name became virtually synonymous with the profession. At age...
Rail workers do it, teachers do it, even judges did it earlier this year. Now top doctors are doing it, too: walking off the job in France to demonstrate against shabby treatment by the government. Some 2,000 French surgeons are threatening to spend a week in self-imposed exile...
Our goal is to get France to realize how undervalued our profession is
Liu's modest, easygoing manner belies his single-minded dedication to vaulting at top speed over 10 barriers, each more than a meter high. His parents wanted him to study computer engineering or some other profession befitting his middle-class Shanghai upbringing, but Liu was intent on athletics. He entered...
It seems that just about every profession is more and more specialized these days. Now you can add financial planning to the list. Approximately 25% of the nation's 40,000 bona fide financial advisers are devoting their practices to assisting certain kinds of clients: seniors, individuals going through divorce...