Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truth only beginning to become apparent today. The knowledge industry, in fact, may grow to the point where it is the largest single segment of the economy. A new type of executive-one with great flexibility and broad powers of judgment-will replace the man who is a specialist in one field: the computer will perform many of the tasks that the specialist...
...exhaustive version of the unfinished yet classic work popularly known as Gibbon's Autobiography, edited by Swiss Specialist Georges Bonnard, is now out in the U.S. Bonnard includes Gibbon's notes, his own, and two appendices. Nothing in these pages, however, suggests that Reynolds' portrait was misleading. The alliance of Gibbon and Rome remains one of those successful marriages that amaze by sheer illogic...
WHILE as journalists the editors "of TIME remain generalists, they have found it increasingly necessary to make themselves far more expert than before in many, many fields. Yet there are some areas so vastly complex that only a true specialist will do-to help and work with the editors in their weekly appraisal of the news. Thus last February, TIME contracted with the Louis Harris organization for a series of swift, meaningful public-opinion surveys on national issues as they arise. We believe that the six TIME-Louis Harris polls to date have enhanced everybody's understanding of what...
...patio behind the Orante Intourist Hotel at the Black Sea resort of Sochi, an American scholar and a leading Soviet physicist were skimming a Frisbee at each other. The Russian, Mikhail Dmitrievich Millionshchikov, had approached the game hesitantly, perhaps because the American. Columbia University's Marshall Shulman, a specialist in Russian affairs, had demonstrated such skill. But soon Millionshchikov was lunging enthusiastically after the elusive plastic saucer...
...this shifting scene, a bold new entrepreneur has appeared: the new-product specialist, the privateer who will find or develop a product for any company willing to pay. These specialists contend that most U.S. corporate managers, for all their talk about market research, still think more in terms of product than consumer. The privateers are usually young veterans of advertising or marketing who work on ideas supplied by clients or develop and sell products on their own. More than 20 independent new-product firms are at work on projects for General Foods, National Biscuit, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers, Continental...