Word: professionalizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Everybody seems to believe it: The way the two parties nominate presidential candidates is a troubled system that needs “reform.”National political leaders and journalists gather today at Harvard’s Institute of Politics for a day-long conference to mull ideas for...
One hallway was lined with television screens that broadcast security camera footage of other parts of the party. "I had a great time," said Joel McHale, the guy who hosts The Soup on the E Network. "I just haven't slept in 24 hours." At around this point in the...
...other runway "incursions" - a spike from eight during the same period the year before. With air traffic controllers having operated for more than 600 days without a new contract from the FAA, morale among them is at an all-time low, and with just 11,100 fully trained professionals serving the entire country - the smallest number in 16 years - a combination of fatigue and frustration is laying a dangerous groundwork. Doug Church, union spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, says the practitioners of this unsung profession are being hung out to dry. "We're left trying to hold...
P.C. alert! Am I calling on the networks to act in the name of mere cosmetic appearance? Yes! News anchors are--more than any profession outside of car-show modeling--about cosmetic appearance. Yes, they need news chops, but they are hired, foremost, literally to be the face of a...
Have you ever fibbed your age? How about where you’re from? Of course there’s no harm in doing this, but where’s the point at which the little lies you tell become a giant fabrication? “The Runner,?...