"Where he is placed is a matter of professional decision by the Secret Service and others and something that is properly in their hands and not in my hands, " said Sen.

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The idea of a professional civil service, based on written examinations, was not invented by the British but by the Chinese.

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Food prices rose by nearly 1 percent and the service industry, from education to professional services, is up 7.88 percent year over year.

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"The court's decision today is a great loss to millions of New Yorkers outside of Manhattan, as well as for the professional livery drivers whose ability to feed their families by providing a popular service their communities want and deserve is now in jeopardy, " he said through a spokesman.

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The departments are run by a cadre of professional managers who are protected by civil-service rules.

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It would be nice to think that the business of kindness will not be captured by professional marketeers and become just another device for paying lip service to how people think business ought to behave.

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It would do so by overregulating the health-care system in the service of special interests such as insurance companies, hospitals, professional organizations and pharmaceutical companies, rather than the patients who should be our primary concern.

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