Word: generalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same few dozen people. In such a one-ring circus, Zurbriggen has had only one close friend, the Swiss GS star Max Julen, who retired last year. Asked if he is friendly with any of the other skiers, he mentions the West German ace Markus Wasmeier, like himself a generalist who is a threat in any event. Wasmeier, a likable fellow with lank blond hair and a lean, fined-down body, is obviously startled to hear this; he thinks Zurbriggen is a magnificent skier, he says, and a fine sportsman. But it is clear that he doesn't know...
...What you have learned in the doctoral experience is to become a generalist in understanding how things have changed. This generalist mentality and an understanding of what history can do allows us to interpret the events and history of a company," says Allen, who got his Ph.D. at Wisconsin. "In a nutshell, history is a way of thinking...
...congressman is the last great generalist," explains Roosevelt, "he knows a little about a lot of things but he has to know how to make the system work...
...addition, Naisbitt said, the job market will place less value on the specialist and more on the "generalist who can adapt...
...probably more difficult to be a snob now than it once was. The logistical base is gone. If Buckley were one, he would have to be considered one of the last of the great Renaissance snobs, a generalist capable of insufferable expertise on everything from Spanish wines to spinnakers. But the making of such a handsomely knowledgeable, or even pseudo-knowledgeable, character requires family money and leisure of a kind not often available in the late 20th century. "A child's education," Oliver Wendell Holmes once remarked, "should begin at least one hundred years before he was born...