Word: specialist
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Though a comedy specialist, Tarses now has to do everything from scheduling made-for-TV movies to (despite her fear of public speaking) giving talks to advertisers and affiliates. Yet she rejects the notion that she's too inexperienced for the job. "I was at NBC for eight years. I was exposed to every aspect of what a person in the job that I have now does. There have been many people prior to me in this job at various networks who had far less direct experience in all aspects of programming...
...wave of deadly infections in hospitals. First discovered in Japan, the new strain showed an "intermediate" level of resistance to the antibiotic vancomycin, which has been used worldwide to fight off Staphylococcus and other stubborn types of bacteria for the past 30 years. Dr. Francisco Sapico, an infectious disease specialist at USC's Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, told TIME Online the possibility of losing vancomycin as a weapon against Staphylococcus is cause for concern. "It would become very serious, because there are not many other antibiotics that could be active against the organism," he said. Sapico added, however, that...
...National Security Council chief who missed getting the job last year by a whisker of his perpetual five o'clock shadow. Aides say Berger is much more of a disciplinarian than Bowles or Leon Panetta, and unafraid to give Clinton bad news with the bark off. An Asia specialist who enjoys the support of the First Lady, Berger is also intensely political and was one of Clinton's first backers in 1988. What Berger lacks is the chumminess and personal chemistry that Clinton enjoys with Bowles. Clinton might also be reluctant to shuffle his foreign policy team now that...
Darwin began as a gentleman naturalist. It was in, and for, the working out of his great idea that he became a specialist in zoology, taxonomy, geology, paleontology, animal breeding, plant breeding, embryology, animal behavior, human behavior, sociology and ecology (a discipline he essentially created). Einstein, too, was guided in his scientific work by a single vision. So was Edward Gibbon, who described the guiding idea of his multivolume historical and literary masterpiece, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a single short sentence: "I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion." These examples suggest that someone...
Specialization--attending to one thing at a time, and for as long a time as will insure thoroughness--is obviously desirable and it is not a modern invention. Specialism in something else: it is a piece of etiquette which decrees that no specialist shall bother with the concerns of another, lest he be thought intruding and be shown up as ignorant.... [Specialism reduces] every art and mode of though to a preoccupation with the details of its making...