In some other scenes, though, viewers could tell they weren't professional actors.
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When I ask friends who aren't professional investors what question they'd most like answered in a FORBES column, they all say pretty much the same thing.
The enforcement agency considers the Games an amateur enterprise, even though Olympic basketball players can come from the NBA. "We feel it would open a big can of worms to determine who's professional and who isn't professional, " said Jerry Markling, the NGCB's chief of enforcement.
We can't blame professional footballers because we don't see assaults in professional football.
Smith isn't the first professional athlete to land an intern job at a national publication.
If you don't take the bar exam, you can't become a lawyer, and therefore, you can't become a professional.
Warning: The lower rate isn't available for professional service corporations, like law firms.
It hasn't attracted a professional sports team as planners had hoped, but city officials said it has regularly booked such events as the Big 12 Conference's men's basketball tournament.
Kaufman says that when he started over 30 years ago, tennis umpiring wasn't as organized and professional as it is today, and there weren't many people who wanted to be umpires.
"Not only was there no such pressure, there couldn't be in a professional relationship, " Putnam said in his CNN interview.
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Before the partition, traditional culture frowned on eating out, and members of certain religious groups and castes weren't allowed to be professional cooks.
At the time, critics thought the deal was expensive for someone who hadn't accomplished anything on the Professional Golfers' Association Tour.
The campaign generated so much publicity that at one point the Federal Trade Commission intervened to make sure that the twin with the Toni wave wasn't done up by a professional.
You don't have to be a professional journalist to try out for the job, but you do have to be able to commit to blogging for us daily (or on the weekend, depending).
While sketchbooks won't be standard issue for the professional artists on the Disko Bay Expedition, David Buckland says creative freedom will be encouraged.
"Ask Cap'n Slappy" is an advice column, featured on the pirate duo's Web site, that he started to help people help themselves -- in ways he wouldn't dare propose while wearing his professional "Behavior Consultant" hat.
Like we saw last time around, some of the 7-to-8 upgrade rules are a bit Byzantine -- 7 Professional users can't step down to the non-Pro Windows 8 release, for example, and it's equally verboten to change language editions or move from 32- to 64-bit code without a full-scale reinstallation.
Ms. Polverini attended the party in professional attire and didn't stay long, her spokeswoman said.
But this kind of lifestyle change isn't easy and is best done with professional help, Weindruch said.
However, Bill Thompson, a technology journalist, said the move to citizen journalism didn't necessarily spell the end of the professional.
Get professional instruction but don't be tempted to try too much too soon, especially if encouraged by more experienced friends.
One of the few parts of professional golf that doesn't appear stronger now than in 2009 is the business of being Tiger Woods.
Mr. Harak, 49 years old, says he was surprised to learn that he had a professional card that wasn't covered by the Card Act.
I've tried 4.1, 2.1, 2.0 setups but none of them made me very happy, which isn't helping my attempts to get into professional audio work.
Yet a professional tennis player can't lob a ball a few feet into the air and hit an overhand smash without being able to hear a pin drop?
The combination of such weapons with high-capacity magazines "facilitates mass homicides, " Pollack told CNN, noting that professional criminals generally don't use such rifles that look like military weapons.
The leading American professional soccer league can't compete with the English Premier League or Spain's La Liga when it comes to star names, gigantic salaries or world-wide audience.
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But advocates of citizen newsgathering - who value the capacity of amateurs to get to places professional reporters often can't - say it would be a mistake to hold everyone to the same standards as veterans of the craft.
Finally, don't think that you have to be a professional to enjoy doing something.
"This isn't a cause, it's a professional sports league and will be marketed as such, " she says.
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