As of 2012, only one percent of the U.S. population claims farming as an occupation.
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Over the last several decades, the number of people claiming farming as an occupation has declined precipitously.
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In 1973, militant Indians began an occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in a siege that lasted until May.
Hardly anyone with an occupation has the time or the inclination to keep close tabs on his or her personal finances.
He has deemed the American presence of Iraq an occupation and has repeatedly called for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces.
Mr Laker had made flying, once again, an occupation for the elite.
The separate Climate Camp in the City, an occupation of a major road, was entirely peaceful - but highly disruptive for anyone in the area.
If the land coveted by the EPA is dry, a different statute is cited, and different birds (spotted owls) are sent in as an occupation force.
People choose different specialties and the number of males or whites or whatever choosing an occupation usually differs from the overall composition of the U.S. population.
It takes a minimum of seven years hard graft to be called an 'architect' -- it's not an occupation for the faint-hearted or those looking for instant success.
"Within an occupation, the employment growth rate is approximately 20% higher in states that do not require licensing, " he says, quoting from his 2006 book Licensing Occupations: Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition?
With young children at home needing care and an increasing cost of outsourcing that care, many families need to choose a parent to stay home while the other earns money with an occupation.
The television networks are too full of people tearfully evoking memories of maternal or paternal neglect or misunderstanding, not to make it plain that being somebody's parent is not an occupation to fail at lightly.
Budget hotels in London had an occupation rate of 84% in 2010, better than their grander equivalents in the capital and the 69% occupancy in the rest of England, according to Miles Quest of the British Hospitality Association (BHA).
An unexpected occupation came in as the third happiest: administration and clerical jobs.
There are many who claim the field of PR has become an irrelevant occupation.
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She was walking across America, an odd occupation for a woman of 89.
As he explains it, the gradual movement of coyotes northward plus the rise of synthetic fabrics have combined to make sheep-raising an endangered occupation in these parts.
Half-Life 2 revisits Gordon Freeman and gives him an alien occupation to fight off and a gravity gun to help him with the dirty work.
It mentioned France's current role in Mali, where 1, 700 troops are to join forces with neighboring African countries to rout out an Islamist occupation of the country's north.
From April, unused bedrooms in social housing will be subject to an under-occupation charge under changes to the benefits system.
Four students have been charged in connection with an eight-week occupation at the University of Sussex.
Four students have denied offences connected to an eight-week occupation at the University of Sussex.
"Virtually every Iraqi with whom we met urged that there be no delay in bringing an end to the occupation, by 30 June at the latest, " he said.
But Naomi Heaton, CEO of London Central Portfolio, which specialises in acquiring properties for investors in central London, said the policy would not lead to an increase in property occupation.
It is often said that there is no place like Puerto Rico, whose bitter war for independence against Spain ended in 1898 with an American invasion, whose occupation ushered in the American century but whose continued purgatory -- neither the 51st state, nor an independent country -- seems aberrant in the 21st.
Eisenhower's plan had been to set up an American military government of occupation in France.
The MST, who had occupied the land for six years before being moved by police in 2006, staged a second occupation in November in an attempt to pressure the courts into speeding up their decision.
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