"That is the fault of the system, if it was any other profession he would have been suspended and that angers me, " she said.

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At the same time, the profession is trying to hammer out a better system of producing accounting principles.

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Judicial reform, repealing outdated and restrictive laws, educating citizens of their rights, creating a vibrant civil society to protect those rights, and remaking the legal system and the legal profession all are required to lay the foundation of rule of law in Burma, and all have a long way to go.

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Barton, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Legal System explains that the legal profession has self-serving tendencies.

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On top of all this, the accounting profession's critics have one more small request: They want a system of accounting that is as useful to government policymakers, consumers and other groups as it is to investors and creditors.

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The two presidential hopefuls, who decry the influence of money in the political system and the power of "special interests, " say they believe that politics is a "noble profession, " and they talk about their desire to run "different" campaigns that avoid "negative attacks" on their opponents.

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"This is a unique opportunity to unite the profession against the reintroduction of the discredited payment by result system, " said Mr McAvoy.

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Ezra implicitly blames teachers for poor results and for not implementing a system that would not only weaken their political power and likely their standard of living, but also make the profession far less appealing to new teachers.

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