They echo conversations in Iraq, where Red Cross officials, whose representatives have worked in the nation's hospitals for more than a decade, have acted as go-betweens for Iraqi medical professionals and coalition authorities.
Don't count medical professionals in the coalition of the undecided.
To recruit physicians, a roster of potential physician participants was generated using membership lists from, e.g., local professional societies, asthma coalitions, and yellow-pages listings.
The short-lived coalition of professional pro-Europeans was dissolved the morning after their defeat.
The main New Order political grouping was Golkar, a coalition of professional and functional groups, civil servants and retired military officers set up in the early 1960s to counter the growing appeal of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI).
"It's a real poignant testimony for a youngster to come in and say, 'We need more funding or I'm going to die,' " said Barbara Glenn, chairwoman of CoFARM, a coalition of professional societies pushing for more agricultural research.
"I join a coalition of professional mental health organizations in applauding the passage of the bill".
Historically these have been free-standing entities, usually developed by a professional body or a coalition of professional bodies, as was the case in developing the first two accreditation agencies in the United States and Canada [ 26].
In another outreach effort, a Long Island coalition of professionals and executives have created www.libusinessrelief.com, a Web site to assist those providing emergency office space and supplies.
Even if the engineers prevail here and get a better contract, it remains to be seen, of course, whether organized labor can ever forge a broad-based coalition between professionals and the lower-wage workers it also continues to try to organize with major campaigns like the Justice for Janitors movement.
