The body count in the retail sector continued to rise with nearly 200 redundancies at specialist chain Passion for Perfume.
A couple of hundred kilometres away in Lublin, Rysiek, a specialist printer, develops a passion for his dentist, Jadwiga, a woman less than half his age; predictably, he succumbs to temptation and betrays Véra, his wife of 30 years.
After five often tumultuous years at the top, Ms. Quinlan resigned her post in 1999 and started a small research firm where she said she discovered her true passion, as a specialist in marketing to women.
No one seemed to care that much when Zavvi or Our Price or Tower or even Virgin went to the wall: save your mourning, goes the logic, for the tiny independent record stores, trying to repel the apparently inexorable advance of Amazon armed only with their specialist knowledge of and true passion for music.
Nurses often had a passion for developing specialist expertise in one area of care and also understood the importance of developing good nurse patient relationships.
Although a true quality management systems specialist at heart, Kristy has a passion for effectively and efficiently applying quality systems principles to early stage development to maximize benefit while minimizing impact on resources and time to market.
The dwindling number of specialists was a major loss for the system as a whole: "[Pupils] will not be exposed to specialists and people with a true passion for teaching," said one respondent.
"Profoundly gifted kids are highly curious and likely to pursue all kinds of interests with great passion," says Sandra Berger, a gifted-education specialist for more than 20 years.
DENVER — Molly Brown, the unsinkable survivor of Titanic fame, is about to set sail again, this time as channeled through the historical passions of Janet Kalstrom, a retired information technology specialist and full-time Titanic buff.
More recently, the presence of Dr. George Tiller, a specialist in late-term abortions, has kept anti-abortion passions high, attracting Operation Rescue to Wichita for the Summer of Mercy protests in 1991.
