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From: garry@lasspvax.UUCP (Garry Wiegand)
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Subject: Re: Professionalism and SIGAda
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Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 00:11:10 EST
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There is a good article in this month's Atlantic on what the author
calls "credentialism":  the all-American desire to acquire "credentials"
for oneself and to only employ those who have such proper credentials.

I make no further comment; the author's more fair (and enlightening) than
I can hope to be!